Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy on his 100th Birthday
In the fall of 2010, when the columnist Christopher Hitchens was dying of cancer and publicly chronicling the process, he said he wished that he could stick around long enough to write Henry Kissinger’s obituary, telling NPR, “It does gash me to think that people like that would outlive me, I have to say.” Hitchens died a mere one year later at the age of 62. A dozen years hence, Kissinger—whom he had denounced as a war criminal - still breathes, turned 100 on May 27, to the encomia and well wishes of many in the foreign policy establishment.