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Henry Kissinger, the Hypocrite

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Henry Kissinger, who died on Wednesday, exemplified the gap between the story that America, the superpower, tells and the way that we can act in the world. At turns opportunistic and reactive, his was a foreign policy enamored with the exercise of power and drained of concern for the human beings left in its wake. Precisely because his America was not the airbrushed version of a city on a hill, he never felt irrelevant: Ideas go in and out of style, but power does not.

From 1969 to 1977, Mr. Kissinger established himself as one of the most powerful functionaries in history.…  Seguir leyendo »

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Hamas attacks in Israel at the White House, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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On Saturday, October 7, I was awakened in the middle of the night by a news organization seeking comment on Hamas’s invasion of Israel. After listening to the message, I scrolled through my phone to figure out what was happening on the other side of the world and felt an eerie familiarity. In my eight years as a deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, I was often called early in the morning by desk officers in the White House Situation Room, who would alert me to some distant crisis demanding attention, including multiple wars in Gaza. Yet as I read headlines that barely managed to convey the scale of the carnage, I felt a deeper sense of foreboding.…  Seguir leyendo »

Una estudiante de medicina en una marcha de noviembre de 2018 créditoAlexandre Meneghini/Reuters

MundoAmérica,

El 29 de noviembre de 2016 descubrí que era el único funcionario estadounidense en el estrado durante el homenaje póstumo a Fidel Castro en La Habana. A mi alrededor se encontraban militantes de la izquierda latinoamericana y europea, representantes de Medio Oriente, iconos del anticolonialismo en África y distintos representantes de gobiernos de Occidente. Frente a mí, cientos de rostros cubanos que llenaban la Plaza de la Revolución esperaban con expectación o resignación el siguiente discurso.

Nunca se me habría ocurrido que estaría ahí. Aunque me encargué durante años de entablar negociaciones con el gobierno cubano, e incluso mantuve conversaciones con el hijo de Raúl Castro, Alejandro, nunca conocí a Fidel, quien mantuvo una actitud de recelo y hostilidad hacia la apertura de relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Cuba.…  Seguir leyendo »