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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who turned 100 years old earlier this year, passed away at his Connecticut residence on Wednesday, according to a Kissinger Associates, Inc. press release.
Kissinger served as secretary of state during a portion of Republican President Richard Nixon's White House tenure and then under President Gerald Ford after Nixon resigned.
Kissinger was born in Germany in 1923, but his Jewish family immigrated to the U.S. in 1938, according to history.state.gov, which noted that Kissinger's name, which had been Heinz, was switched to Henry. "During World War II, Kissinger became a naturalized citizen and served in the U.S. Army as a German interpreter," the government website notes.
"As a refugee from Nazi Germany, he had lost 13 family members and countless friends to the Holocaust. He returned to his native Germany as an American soldier, participating in the liberation of the Ahlem concentration camp near Hannover," Kissinger's son David wrote of his father in a Washington Post piece posted earlier this year.
"He has an unquenchable curiosity that keeps him dynamically engaged with the world. His mind is a heat-seeking weapon that identifies and grapples with the existential challenges of the day. In the 1950s, the issue was the rise of nuclear weapons and their threat to humanity. About five years ago, as a promising young man of 95, my father became obsessed with the philosophical and practical implications of artificial intelligence," David Kissinger wrote.
GOP Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida described Kissinger as "a patriot who lived a life of great consequence."
Republican Rep. Greg Murphy of North Carolina described Kissinger as "a man of keen insight and sage advice; the gold standard for foreign policy."
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In a newly published interview with the Wall Street Journal, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned of the dangers of the United States’ current policy toward Russia and China.
“I think that the current period has a great trouble defining a direction. It’s very responsive to the emotion of the moment,” Kissinger told the Wall Street Journal.
Kissinger, 99, served as secretary of state and national security adviser under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and has held numerous foreign policy roles since. Kissinger has long been among the foremost advocates of realpolitik: a system of politics considered to be based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
“We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to,” Kissinger said, adding that the U.S. should not “accelerate the tensions and to create options.”
Kissinger warned that the U.S. should be wary about its recent increase in support toward Taiwan.
“The policy that was carried out by both parties has produced and allowed the progress of Taiwan into an autonomous democratic entity and has preserved peace between China and the U.S. for 50 years,” he said. “One should be very careful, therefore, in measures that seem to change the basic structure.”
Kissinger is among the most controversial figures in U.S. politics. He may be best known for his role in Operation Menu, which involved the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and Laos from 1969 to 1970. Kissinger also played a significant role in opening U.S. trade with China by making a secret trip to the country in 1971.
The late Christopher Hitchens wrote a book-length indictment of Kissinger in 2001 titled “The Trial of Henry Kissinger.” In the book, Hitchens calls for Kissinger’s prosecution "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture.” However, in a poll conducted by Foreign Policy magazine, scholars ranked Kissinger as the most effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years.
“I do not torture myself with things we might have done differently,” Kissinger said in the recent interview.
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