“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.”
-Anthony Bourdain
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Edit: Oops. Rule 6 no celebrating death.
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"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
-Clarence Darrow
If you're wondering whether this is good or bad news consider the following
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
Rip my annual tradition of realizing he's still alive and visibly blanching.
Nice.
I hope his afterlife (yeah I know) is exactly what he deserves based on his actions in his physical life.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
In a statement, Kissinger Associates, a political consulting firm he founded, said the German-born former diplomat died at his home in Connecticut.
During his decades long career, Mr Kissinger played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in US foreign and security policy.
After earning bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees, he taught international relations at Harvard.
In 1969, then-President Richard Nixon appointed him National Security Adviser, a position which gave him enormous influence over US foreign policy in two administrations.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.
The original article contains 213 words, the summary contains 109 words. Saved 49%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Oh shit really?
Rule 6, folks! This is a rule 6 alert. Rule 6 in full effect, proceed at your own rule6iest 🎉 💀 🎉