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I think Kissinger's record under Nixon, for all his intellectual brilliance, was simply a demonstration of the irrelevance and obsolescence of "realist" foreign policy thinking since the outbreak of WWI. We live in the age of immensely destructive weapons and of the immensely promising benefits of peace, both at the same time. The age of toy armies fighting limited wars a la 1750 is just dead. The French Revolution and then the industrial transformation of modern war just killed it.

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Hear! Hear!

I would add, putting our nuclear arsenal on high alert during the Yom Kippur War.

Completely unnecessary and terribly risky.

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