A refreshingly different type of statement from Kissinger. Very unlike his historic
type of pontification. More in line with what we USA lovers want to happen.
Original in was one word per line and couldn't read it so changed format to
'Plain Text' to make it readable, and copyable.
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From: Jim Solomon
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 3:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: Kissinger on Trump - Interesting Read
Some interesting observations by a most certainly qualified observer.
Recently , Henry Kissinger did an interview and said very amazing things
regarding President Trump, He starts with: "Donald Trump is a phenomenon that
foreign countries haven't seen."
The former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gives us a new understanding of
President Donald Trump's foreign policy and predicts its success:
"Liberals and all those who favor (Hillary) Clinton will never admit it. They will
never admit that he is the one true leader. The man is doing changes like never before
and does all of it for the sake of this nation's people. After eight years of tyranny, we
finally see a difference."
Kissinger knows it and he continues with: "Every country now has to consider
two things: One, their perception that the previous president, or the outgoing president,
basically withdrew America from international politics, so that they had to make their
own assessments of their necessities. And secondly, that there is a new president
who's asking a lot of unfamiliar questions. And because of the combination of the
partial vacuum and the new questions, one could imagine that something remarkable
and new emerges out of it."
Then Kissinger puts it bluntly: "Trump puts America and its people first. This is
why people love him and this is why he will remain in charge for so long. There is not
a single thing wrong with him and people need to open their eyes."
When he boasts that he has a "bigger red button" than Kim Jung Un does, he so
transcends the mealy-mouthed rhetoric of the past that he forces a new recognition of
American power.
Kissinger once wrote, "The weak grow strong by effrontery. The strong grow
weak through inhibition." No sentence better captures the U.S.-North Korea
relationship. Trump is discarding the inhibitions and call the bluff on North Korea's
effrontery. His point is that the contrast of American retreat under Obama and its
new assertion of power under Trump creates a new dynamic that every one of our
allies and of our enemies must consider.
Our allies grew complaisant with Obama's passivity and now are fearful due to
Trump's activism. And they must balance the two in developing their policies. They
realize that the old assumptions, catalyzed by Bush 43's preoccupation with Iraq and
Obama's refusal to lead are obsolete. So, Trump is forcing a new calculus with a new
power behind American interests.
Those — here and abroad — who rode the old apple cart worry about its being toppled.
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