The "shuttle diplomacy" everyone praises? That event was Kissinger ushering in the ultimate betrayal of the West against the Arab world. Leaders like Hafez al-Assad of Syria took it as a personal slight. From that moment, he realized there was no negotiating with the West for Palestinians and made it his personal mission of vengeance against Israel and the West as his legacy. Prior to the 70' and 80's, suicide attacks were considered a grave sin in Islam. al-Assad and some other leaders sought out imams who were specifically pro-suicide attacks and pushed them onto resistance groups. There is a reason the first Islamic suicide attack does not happen until the 1980's. Had Kissinger not been so duplicitous, we'd live in a very very different world. No 9/11. No bus and cafe bombings in Israel in the 80's. No Paris nightclub attack. This is part of Kissinger's legacy as much as those in the Arab world who pushed it.
The "shuttle diplomacy" everyone praises? That event was Kissinger ushering in the ultimate betrayal of the West against the Arab world. Leaders like Hafez al-Assad of Syria took it as a personal slight. From that moment, he realized there was no negotiating with the West for Palestinians and made it his personal mission of vengeance against Israel and the West as his legacy. Prior to the 70' and 80's, suicide attacks were considered a grave sin in Islam. al-Assad and some other leaders sought out imams who were specifically pro-suicide attacks and pushed them onto resistance groups. There is a reason the first Islamic suicide attack does not happen until the 1980's. Had Kissinger not been so duplicitous, we'd live in a very very different world. No 9/11. No bus and cafe bombings in Israel in the 80's. No Paris nightclub attack. This is part of Kissinger's legacy as much as those in the Arab world who pushed it.
Shit, like expanding all those bombing campaigns wasn't enough. What a total bastard.
everything the man touched was poisoned