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Wednesday, October 09, 2002
MOVIE REVIEW: THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER (2002) * 1/2 (1 and a half stars out of 4).
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The premise of this movie is that Kissinger, the mastermind behind the war in Cambodia, and an influence in extending the war in Vietnam, the overthrow of the Chilean government, and the invasion of East Timor, should be tried for War Crimes for his role in those events. While I am no Kissinger fan, I found the movie totally unconvincing. If the thesis of the movie had been "Henry Kissinger is a jerk" or "Henry Kissinger shouldn't have gotten a Nobel Peace Prize", I'd say it had done a great job. But the war crimes charge just doesn't stick. All they've accused Kissinger of is setting the policy of the United States, in a time of war. His only war crime was successfully convincing Nixon and Ford that his ideas should be the policy of the United States. Now, I'm no expert on International law, but unless it goes completely against the principles of the First Amendment, and of the very concept of representative democracy, there's just nothing wrong with serving your country, even if you occasionally bungle the job, and even if people die as a result of your decisions, particularly in wartime. Additionally, again and again, the "documentary" promotes speculation by its interview subjects about what Kissinger liked and disliked, what motivated him, what he must have been thinking, and so on. Very many of the most damning statements about Kissinger in the movie are completely unsupported and speculative. Before I saw the movie, I was fully prepared to come out of that movie ready to hang Kissinger, but there just wasn't any smoking gun.
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