Kissinger Really Was A Creep, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #207

January 31, 2011 Mike Gold 17 Comments

I’ve been wanting to get this off my chest for a couple months now, but other events kept popping up. But now as we’re waiting to hear exactly how and when we’re going to get dragged into the New Egyptian War, my mind wanders back to Vietnam. Ah, the good old days!

I can’t honestly say I ever had any respect for Henry Kissinger. Sure, he has a brilliant mind. He was a Harvard professor specializing in nuclear strategy and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He helped negotiate the end to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. He served as one of Peter Sellers’ inspirations in the classic movie Doctor Strangelove.

On the other hand, he was one of Richard Nixon’s chief Vietnam War architects and was responsible for the bombing of Cambodia, which killed some 40,000 combatants and civilians and helped put the ruthlessly evil Communist dictator Pol Pot in power. He admitted orchestrating the overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende by supporting Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing military coup – Allende “committed suicide” – and the overthrow of Isabel Perón by the right-wing Argentine military. Kissinger chaired the committee charged by George W. Bush with investigating the September 11 attacks, but later stepped down due to conflicts of interest.

I can go on and on, but I must be fair: Henry Kissinger also slept with Jill St. John. That’s got to count for something.

About two months ago, the ever-unspooling Nixon White House tapes revealed an amusing conversation between Henry and his boss back in 1973 that’s stuck in my craw. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, the flower of Milwaukee Wisconsin, had just met with Nixon and Kissinger and begged them to put pressure on the Soviet Union to release those Jews who were being prevented from leaving. According to the Nixon Tapes, after Ms. Meir left Secretary Kissinger told his boss “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern.”

Now that’s a very curious statement from a Jew who had lost 12 family members to the gas chambers and the ovens. My family lost about that number and I get pissed about the whole Hitler thing. Kissinger… well, evidently, not so much.

Perhaps he was just shining onto his boss. Nixon was a notorious Jew-hater; he even locked Jews on his staff out of policy decisions regarding Israel, and that included his own secretary of state, which happened to be Mr. Kissinger. This was not done behind Henry’s back: handling America’s foreign policy was his job and he knew all about it. That’s fine, pal. Assimilation is swell, but don’t think they’ll let you swim in their pool.

Several weeks after release of these tapes, Kissinger told the Washington Post that he was quoted “out of context” and that “references to gas chambers have no place in political discourse, and I am sorry I made that remark 37 years ago.” I guess that lust for assimilation wears off by the time you’re 88 years old.

Jill St. John turned 70 last August. She’s been married to actor Robert Wagner for 20 years, and she looks great.

These days, she’s looking a lot better than Henry Kissinger.

Media-metaphysician, severely lapsed Jew and www.ComicMix.com editor-in-Chief Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking bizarro music and blather radio show on America’s pop culture channel The Point, www.getthepointradio.com, every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, replayed three times during the week (check the website above for times). Likewise, his hilariously offensive Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind political and cultural rants are unleashed each and every day at the same venue.