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Newly released documents have revealed more about Henry Kissinger’s role in Argentina’s Dirty War.
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Jesus, Lulu, you're doing it again - you link to a stupid article that refers briefly to 2 incidents from the Kissinger revelations, one already released a couple weeks ago, and the 2nd one almost completely out of context with what was going on, and then the author goes off into stupid stuff about Henry Kissinger crying over some press competition or off into unrelated stuff about Vietnam. Can't you read any good online material and bring us stuff even worth debating?
Here's what I referred to 2 weeks ago when you brought this up - that Carter's administration wasn't resolute against the Argentinian generals, but instead giving a waffling set up signals that were hard to follow (a complaint from the Shah of Iran's team about the same time as he tried to follow the US's objections while avoiding popular overthrow): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/newly-declassifie...
Additionally, the Argentinian Generals didn't appear from nowhere - they were a response to decades of Peronism as well as leftist attacks, and during the time of the Kissinger quote, leftists were assassinating high up administration and police officals weekly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War - that certainly doesn't excuse the inhumaneness of the Desaparecidos (including the forced anonymous adoption of the disappeared's children), but it is quite important in understanding Kissinger's statement "“I think also we’ve got to expect a fair amount of repression, probably a good deal of blood, in Argentina before too long. I think they’re going to have to come down very hard not only on the terrorists but on the dissidents of trade unions and their parties.”, whether you agree with him or not. It's simply not possible to dissect this phrase properly without a basic understanding and reference to both the roots The Dirty War as a whole, and the complicated influence of Peron & Peronism on Argentina (including his illness and the reign of his 3rd wife who was the one eventually deposed).
As a hint, the last link notes that Peron got along well with Che Guevera (Argentinian, of course), but warned him to abandon his revolution in Bolivia as suicide, while commenting on Allende's misguided approach in Argentina and greeting Pinochet shortly after that coup. The Dirty War got started only after the far left accomplished some high profile assassinations that completely alienated Peron as an overall leftist & long-term initiator of social reforms for the poor.
With this background, was Kissinger encouraging the stealing of dissident's children, or simply noting the far leftists had set themselves up for a huge ass-kicking and Kissinger wasn't going to stand in its way?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 08/22/2016 - 8:40am