Bye, Heinz

Turns out the old cunt only seemed immortal after all; death took his sweet time but he got there at last.

I’m sure there’s many things that can be said for and against him, but I did recently discover this in his Wiki entry, and it just hit me as, you know, one of the most revolting pieces of foreign policy I’ve ever read about so I wanted to highlight it:

In 1973, Kissinger did not feel that pressing the Soviet Union concerning the plight of Jews being persecuted there was in the interest of U.S. foreign policy. In conversation with Nixon shortly after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir on March 1, 1973, Kissinger stated, “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. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

Kissinger, lest we forget, was a refugee from Nazi Germany, who you might recall put Jews into gas chambers. Apparently he didn’t care too much if Brezhnev tried to do the same. Maybe it would’ve been a humanitarian concern. Maybe it wouldn’t. Either way, it looks like Kissinger would’ve had no undue issues with the Holocaust being carried out again, this time upon Russian Jews… and I know there’s apparently always been some tension or something between German Jews and Russian Jews, but Kissinger’s words above are a complete ghoul’s statement. As I may have said before, I dislike celebrating people’s deaths, but damned if I’m mourning his. Whatever actual positive things he may have done while he was in this world (cos I presume there were some things), it’s not poorer for him having left it.