Henry Kissinger, chairman of Kissinger Associates, speaks during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener
John Kerry Gets Advice From Henry Kissinger On Dealing With Russia Ahead Of Crunch Talks Over Syria With Putin's Foreign Minister -- Daily Mail
Secretary of State John Kerry will host Nixon-era Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for a meeting Wednesday, just one day before he is due to lock horns with the Russian foreign minister over the Syria crisis.
Kissinger, best known as the 1970s diplomat who crafted the U.S.-Soviet détente and helped open China to the West, suggested during the summer that Syria should be broken up into separate nations for its varied religious and ethnic groups.
He has generally been supportive, however, of military strikes against the Bashar al-Assad regime, warning that doing nothing would be 'catastrophic.'
'It would be a demonstration that after the president has publicly drawn a red line, he cannot get congressional support for a policy that has been unchallenged with respect to chemical weapons,' Kissinger told BBC Radio 4's Today program on Sept. 4.
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My Comment: I am old enough to remember when the anti-war/liberal left hated Henry Kissinger .... and now they are embracing him for advice. The times are certainly changing.