Harry´s Blog

Herbert Kuhner

Two cool cucumbers are Henry Kissinger and Condaleezza Rice. Both served in the same posts in the same sequence under Nixon and Bush II, namely National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.

Condi showed up at the Senate Investigating committee as cool as a cucumber. She had unheeded intelligence warnings about what came to be 9/11, but she didn’t let the grilling she encountered from “liberal” senators phase her in the least.

The National Security Advisor wasn’t warned by the White House Security Advisor, since Condi shooed Richard Clarke away when he tried to convey the information he had.

Three thousand workers in the Twin Towers went the way of all flesh prematurely due to the negligence of those in power, including her. She opted for invading Iraq although Saddam was not involved in 9/11, he did not have weapons of mass destruction, nor was he a threat to the U.S. But she’s not tossing and turning in her bed. Why should she? She’s not the Lone Ranger and she didn’t have a silver bullet for the suicide pilots.

She’s a cool cucumber of today and Henry Kissinger is the cool cucumber of yesteryear.

Here’s Henry on Salvador Allende: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.”

Henry wasn’t a man to waste words. He gave aid and succor to Augusto Pinochet who stopped Allende dead in his tracks. After Allende went out and Pinochet came in the tally was 3000 who ended up as cold clay, the same amount of victims as the Trade Center.

Prince Noradom Sihanook was a juggler and a tightrope walker. He let the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese go back and forth over the borders of Cambodia at will. What else could he have done? Put up resistance? At any rate, he was sort of neutral and kept as much peace as could be kept.

Henry of course looked askance at these proceedings. He knocked the balls out of the juggler’s hands and caused him to tumble off the tightrope.

General Lon Nol took over, but not for long. The Kymer Rouge drove him out and took over. These guys wiped out every suspicious man women and child in sight, and then some. They tally was barely two million.

Henry can’t be held responsible for those crimes, but he certainly triggered them off.

Henry never lost any sleep over these matters. And Condi sleeps well too. The moral of this story is don’t get hot and bothered! Keep your cool. Let the cucumbers show you the way!

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The word is that Condi wants to return to academe in ‘08,
when her tenure as Secretary of State is up.
Let’s see to it that she ends up at Bob Jones University,
or another right-wing haven that teaches “Creationism”
and bars such subjects as evolution from its curriculum.