"Almost from the grave" isn't near enough. It's pretty impressive, though, to see Kissinger as a one-man Greek chorus, standing on the sidelines of the Iraq fiasco wailing lamentations about the ineptitude of others. In fact, the world-historical fuckup of the Iraq war has got Kissinger's fat fingerprints all over it. After all, prior to donning the imperial purple robes -- or at least the pinstripes, pocket hanky and combat boots -- of US Proconsul of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III was managing director at Kissinger and Associates. An obvious soul mate of the empty-suited Kissinger, Bremer had zip skills as a diplomat but excelled as a suck-up artist. Quoth Wikipedia:
"In a Newsday article, 'Diplomatic About-Face/Sources: Garner out in Iraq shuffle' by Knut Royce, May 2, 2003, an unnamed former senior State Department official who worked with Bremer is quoted as saying, Bremer is a 'voracious opportunist with voracious ambitions. What he knows about Iraq could not quite fill a thimble. What he knows about any part of the world would not fill a thimble. But what he knows about Washington infighting could fill three or four bushel baskets.'" In short, a chip off the old block-like dung heap of Kissinger himself.
Carl
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