The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Sunday, November 19, 2006  

A WHITE HOUSE CONSIGLIERE SPEAKS
On the Record, Though Not Necessarily -- This Time -- For a Fee

Improbable Nobel Peace Prize winner, wanted war criminal under travel restrictions ("Sir, please avoid Spain and any Latin American country the name of which ends in a vowel, or we think, in the case of Brazil, with an 'l'."), and Bush administration advisor Henry Kissinger speaks about the quagmire known as Iraq:

If you mean, by "military victory," an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.

Henry, of all people, knows from failure. After all, remember when he was considered a "sex symbol"?

No? Well, it was the '70s and I was but a child, thank God. Still I can recall all that . . . something to do with Jill Clayburgh, I think, believe it or not.

Oh, right, and Vietnam, too. Don't forget Vietnam. Vietnam is a big part of the whole failure mystique.

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