Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order

[nationalize the fed]

The concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisis
By Henry Kissinger Wall St. Journal Aug. 29, 2014

The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis, writes Henry Kissinger. Above, a pro-Russian fighter stands guard at a checkpoint close to Donetsk, Ukraine in July. European Pressphoto Agency

Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relationship with China divided between pledges of cooperation and public recrimination. The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis.

The search for world order has long been defined almost exclusively by the concepts of Western societies. In the decades following World War II, the U.S.—strengthened in its economy and national confidence—began to take up the torch of international leadership and added a new dimension. A nation founded explicitly on an idea of free and representative governance, the U.S. identified its own rise with the spread of liberty and democracy and credited these forces with an ability to achieve just and lasting peace. The traditional European approach to order had viewed peoples and states as inherently competitive; to constrain the effects of their clashing ambitions, it relied on a balance of power and a concert of enlightened statesmen. The prevalent American view considered people inherently reasonable and inclined toward peaceful compromise and common sense; the spread of democracy was therefore the overarching goal for international order. Free markets would uplift individuals, enrich societies and substitute economic interdependence for traditional international rivalries.

This effort to establish world order has in many ways come to fruition. A plethora of independent sovereign states govern most of the world's territory. The spread of democracy and participatory governance has become a shared aspiration if not a universal reality; global communications and financial networks operate in real time.

The years from perhaps 1948 to the turn of the century marked a brief moment in human history when one could speak of an incipient global world order composed of an amalgam of American idealism and traditional European concepts of statehood and balance of power. But vast regions of the world have never shared and only acquiesced in the Western concept of order. These reservations are now becoming explicit, for example, in the Ukraine crisis and the South China Sea. The order established and proclaimed by the West stands at a turning point....
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Many times people that talk about a "New World Order" are called conspiracy kooks and scorned. "It's just 3 words strung together". So Henry K is now a conspiracy theorist. And so is Biden, Kerry, Clinton and Bush.

[Cleita]

1. I hate that man.

His "diplomacy" has caused and continues to cause untold suffering in the country of my birth, Chile. I am American by birth for having American parents, but I have fond memories of the nation I was born in and what he did there with the approval of my country is unforgivable.

[malaise]

2. That fugging decrepit old creep of a war criminal

hasn't croaked yet?
The only person on this planet I detest more than this scumbad ReTHUG is Cheney.

[Owl]

3. That clown still around and meddling?

Ugh

[KG]

4. piss on that war criminal.

he should be rotting in the hague

[Al Carroll]

5. Nixon and Kissinger's Role in Genocide

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/05/1297155/-From-the-book-Presidents-Body-Counts-Nixon-and-Cambodia

[RobertEarl]

6. Yes, hank, US Empire is going down

Had we the more leaders like JFK, that were more interested in People than profits, Empire would now bee rising even faster. Instead we had punks like you guiding the hands of leaders like nixon and bush who have made it harder and harder for peace to continue. Screw you, hank, screw you and your pals who have made a real mess of what could have been a beautiful, more peaceful world.

[sadoldgirl]

7. Well, well, well

This from a guy who helped to destabilize a lot of countries South of the border, was willing to bomb the hell out of Cambodia and helped to arrange our "peace with honor".

Interesting that he comes out with his comments now. Did he also advise W secretly? I did not hear him addressing the Iraq war and its consequences.

Oh, pardon me, this of course was all Obama's fault.

[bemildred]

8. War criminal. nt