{"id":292,"date":"2002-04-17T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2002-04-17T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2002-04-17T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2002-04-17T19:49:05","slug":"the-trial-of-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"the trial of henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Pinochet_on_trial\/Story\/0,2763,685844,00.html\"><i>Pinochet judge asks to question Kissinger<\/i><\/a>, an article from The Guardian today, says in part, &#8220;The former US secretary of state is wanted for questioning by Baltasar Garzon over his alleged involvement in a plot by former South American military dictatorships to persecute and eliminate their opponents in the 1970s and 1980s.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/trialOfKissingerBack.gif\" width=\"378\" height=\"404\"\/><i>The Trial of Henry Kissinger<\/i>, by Christopher Hitchens.<br \/>\\(click the pic to go to trialofhenrykissinger.org\\)&#8217;,CAPTION,&#8217;good.book&#8217;, STICKY);&#8221; onmouseout=&#8221;return nd();&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\nA long life is not always such a good thing.&nbsp;  Too bad we have to wait until men like Kissinger become frail before we dare speak the truth about their crimes in our midst.&nbsp;  The question I am really wanting answered is this: Will American government officials?both former and current?<i>ever<\/i> subject themselves to the same international criminal code that they seek so broadly to impose on officials of other governments?&nbsp; I think not; one of the perquisites of power is the ability to imperiously disregard the rantings of those who know the truth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI know it is unbecoming of me, but I hope Henry lives many years more, the longer for me to relish his decline.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFinally, not to worship Hitchens too much, but here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20010723&amp;s=hitchens\"><b>Israel Shahak, 1933-2001<\/b>&#8216;,CAPTION,&#8217;thenation.com&#8217;);&#8221; onmouseout=&#8221;return nd();&#8221;&gt;an article he wrote nine months ago<\/a> in which he touches on the arrogant, self-serving attitude that Palestinians can have rights only if they deserve them.&nbsp;  Talk about crime in our midst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinochet judge asks to question Kissinger, an article from The Guardian today, says in part, &#8220;The former US secretary of state is wanted for questioning by Baltasar Garzon over his alleged involvement in a plot by former South American military &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[325,566,565,568,567,522,192],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-government","tag-christopher-hitchens","tag-henry-kissinger","tag-pinochet-judge","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-the-guardian","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}