Does Kissinger-opening-China pose a problem for Clinton with working voters?

[Purplecat]

We had a thread on the influence of Henry Kissinger last year: I’ll dig it out rather than copy/pasting my replies from last time.

"Kissinger said we don't have friends/American only has interests..." (with all apologies to Tom Waits)

This was an interesting thought piece on Henry Kissinger and his role in shaping the modern middle east. So how critical is one man in shaping the world today? Is it glossing over the complexity of agency of the leaders and citizens of countries in the middle east/part of SE Asia? Or does it reflect the geo-political reality of America as the dominant force in the world since the end of the second world war? More importantly, was there alternatives to what we lived during the Cold War and ho…

Oh, and of course, we can’t have a thread like this without this:

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