Think Henry Kissinger really is a far-sighted strategist?
Let’s just forget him saying Japan go nuclear in 20 years for nore than four decades.I remember Super Kraut once said there are places where America and it’s ally do not intervene for there are no crucial interests in two different occasions.
If my memory is correct those were East Timor,Mindanao,Afghanistan and Tibet.It didn’t take more than a decade three out of four were intervened by either the U.S or it’s allies.

There’s more.I also remember when I read “The White House Years” ages ago,and Kissinger was mentioning about when a Pakistani press asked his opinion about Durand line dispute and couldn’t answer anything.Now he thinks the region is crucial for NATO’s existence according to this interview and I don’t believe it.

It would help to move the matter forward if the Western interests were set out now.

On more challenges for the future, the SG of the United Nations is starting to take a stand against lack of even-handedness in that organisation. The FT reports that yesterday Mr Ban Ki-moon questioned whether the UN Human Rights Council was “fully meeting the high expectations” of the international community. In particular the Council has issued repeated condemnations of Israel while showing a strong reluctance to denounce rights abuses elsewhere.