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1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East ...more

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To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And...more

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There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings...more

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Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that...more

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It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be c...more

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At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached ...more

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You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutuall...more

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You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

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The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can e...more

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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to...more

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe mo...more