Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state under Richard Nixon who became towering but divisive figure in foreign policy, dies
Criticism of Kissinger has flowed in equal measure. A Rolling Stone magazine headline said: “Henry Kissinger, war criminal beloved by America’s ruling class, finally dies.”
“Henry Kissinger’s bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians — and set [a] path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge,” Sophal Ear, a scholar at Arizona State University who studies Cambodia’s political economy, wrote on the Conversation.
