{"id":5830,"date":"2018-02-06T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2022-05-24T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:19:23","slug":"instrument-of-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5830","title":{"rendered":"Instrument of diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently has said that the temptation to launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea \u00a0 \u00a0‘is<\/strong> strong and the argument rational’ ; <\/strong>remaining\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0consistent \u00a0in his\u00a0steadfast support for “bombing as an instrument of\u00a0<\/strong>diplomacy<\/strong>.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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He recently told a meeting of the United States Senate Armed Services Committee that\u00a0North Korea poses the most immediate threat to global security, arguing that denuclearization of the regime must be a ‘fundamental’ American foreign policy goal.<\/p>\n

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During his time in office, under Presidents Ford & Nixon, Kissinger had been involved in three genocides : Pol Pot\u2019s \u201ckilling fields\u201d in Cambodia, which would never have occurred had he not infamously ordered an illegal four-and-a-half-year bombing campaign in that country; Indonesia\u2019s massacre in East Timor; \u00a0Pakistan\u2019s in Bangladesh both of which he expedited and later as a vociferous public supporter of invading Iraq.<\/p>\n

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Kissinger has been credited with being the modern architect of America’s propensity for “endless war”.<\/p>\n

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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently has said that the temptation to launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea \u00a0 \u00a0‘is strong and the argument rational’ ; remaining\u00a0\u00a0consistent \u00a0in his\u00a0steadfast support for “bombing as an instrument of\u00a0diplomacy.” He recently told a meeting of the United States Senate Armed Services Committee that\u00a0North Korea poses the … Continue reading “Instrument of diplomacy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19687,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/19687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}