Even in the United States, he is subject of a civil suit brought by the family of the Chilean military chief murdered in 1970 as part of a U.S.-conceived attempt to block the election of Salvador Allende.Ĭhristopher Hitchens's book, though admittedly dripping with venom towards Kissinger, and at times rambling and unfocused, persuasively marshals the long-known, as well as the recently declassified, evidence to demonstrate Kissinger's role in the destruction of Chilean democracy and the consolidation of the Pinochet dictatorship, the prolongation of the Vietnam War through the sabotage of Lyndon Johnson's 1968 Vietnam peace talks, the Indonesian invasion and subsequent rape of East Timor, the Greek military junta's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, civilian deaths from United States' aerial bombing in Laos and Cambodia and the Pakistani army's crimes against humanity in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). When Kissinger was in London in April, a British activist sought his arrest on charges related to the Vietnam War. client regimes in South America in the 1970s. Judges from Argentina, Chile, France and Spain are seeking Kissinger's testimony regarding crimes committed by U.S. While he still pontificates regularly about world affairs on American news shows, it is increasingly a world he cannot visit. History is catching up to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The old world order - based on the principle of national sovereignty and the concept of the balance of power - is in danger of being swept aside by humanitarian crusades on behalf of democratisation and human rights, and by rekcless attempts to bring to justice former leaders such as Pinochet.Ĭhristopher Hitchens argues that Kissinger, once again, is being self-serving.HRW: Community: Review of The Trial of Henry Kissinger BOOK REVIEWS Instead, he's published a book called Does America Need a Foreign Policy? in which he argues that American ascendancy around the globe is blinding Americans to the fact that the world is in systemic crisis. So far Henry Kissinger has not charged Hitchens with defamation.
In his book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens charges the former Secretary of State to Richard Nixon with war crimes and called for him to be brought to justice. On this week's Book Talk: Christopher Hitchens on Henry Kissinger's book Does America Need a Foreign Policy? An advice manual for George W Bush or the case for the defence in the trial of Henry Kissinger?
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