基辛格与美国精英的道德破产

亨利·基辛格与美国精英的道德破产

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现在民主

亨利·基辛格去世，享年 100 岁。这位美国前政治家在冷战最激烈的时期担任国家安全顾问和国务卿，并在随后的几十年里对美国外交政策发挥了影响力。 他的行为导致了屠杀、政变甚至种族灭绝，在拉丁美洲、东南亚及其他地区留下了血腥的遗产。 卸任后，基辛格一直到去世为止一直为美国总统和其他高级官员提供建议，他们称赞他是一位有远见的外交官。 耶鲁大学历史学家格雷格·格兰丁表示，这些热情洋溢的讣告只是揭示了“政治机构的道德破产”, 而忽略了基辛格的行为可能导致全球至少 300 万人死亡。 格兰丁是《基辛格的影子：美国最具争议政治家的影响深远》一书的作者。

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Henry Kissinger and the Moral Bankruptcy of U.S. Elites

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Democracy Now!

Henry Kissinger is dead at the age of 100. The former U.S. statesman served as national security adviser and secretary of state at the height of the Cold War and wielded influence over U.S. foreign policy for decades afterward. His actions led to massacres, coups and and even genocide, leaving a bloody legacy in Latin America, Southeast Asia and beyond. Once out of office, Kissinger continued until his death to advise U.S. presidents and other top officials who celebrate him as a visionary diplomat. Yale historian Greg Grandin says those glowing obituaries only reveal "the moral bankruptcy of the political establishment" that ignores how Kissinger's actions may have led to the deaths of at least 3 million people across the globe. Grandin is author of "Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman."

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基辛格的影子：美国最具争议政治家的影响力

https://www.amazon.ca/Kissingers-Shadow-Americas-Controversial-Statesman/dp/1627794492
2015 年 8 月 25 日，格雷格·格兰丁 (Greg Grandin)

对美国最具争议的外交官的新描述，超越了赞扬或谴责，揭示了基辛格是美国当前帝国立场的缔造者

著名历史学家格雷格·格兰丁在他引人入胜的新书《基辛格的影子》中指出，要理解当代美国的危机——海外永无休止的战争和国内政治两极分化——我们必须理解亨利·基辛格。

格兰丁审视了基辛格自己的著作以及大量新解密的文件，揭示了理查德·尼克松的最高外交政策顾问如何在主持越南战败和柬埔寨灾难性的秘密非法战争时帮助复兴 以帝国总统职位为中心的美国例外论的军事化版本。 基辛格相信现实可以屈从于他的意志，坚持认为在决定政策时直觉比确凿的事实更重要，并发誓过去的错误永远不会阻碍未来的大胆行动，基辛格预见到，甚至促成了带领美国的新保守主义理想主义者的崛起。 陷入阿富汗和伊拉克的严重战争。

格兰丁超越了关注基辛格的罪行或成就的叙述，对这位外交官对美国如何看待其在世界上的角色的持续影响提供了令人信服的新解释。

Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman 

https://www.amazon.ca/Kissingers-Shadow-Americas-Controversial-Statesman/dp/1627794492
Aug. 25 2015 by Greg Grandin 

A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance

In his fascinating new book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America―its never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home―we have to understand Henry Kissinger.

Examining Kissinger's own writings, as well as a wealth of newly declassified documents, Grandin reveals how Richard Nixon's top foreign policy advisor, even as he was presiding over defeat in Vietnam and a disastrous, secret, and illegal war in Cambodia, was helping to revive a militarized version of American exceptionalism centered on an imperial presidency. Believing that reality could be bent to his will, insisting that intuition is more important in determining policy than hard facts, and vowing that past mistakes should never hinder future bold action, Kissinger anticipated, even enabled, the ascendance of the neoconservative idealists who took America into crippling wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Going beyond accounts focusing either on Kissinger's crimes or accomplishments, Grandin offers a compelling new interpretation of the diplomat's continuing influence on how the United States views its role in the world.