Michal Lipták's Reviews > The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Well, Henry is self-serving and in effect murderous scum who should rot in jail. It's that simple. And while - as Mugabe has shown - it's never too late to ensure that one rightfully dies in dishonour, it won't happen. Which is likewise simple. International law and prosecution is for puny third world countries, not for Western heavyweights who dominate by brute force. This has been recently one again confirmed by the idiot fuckface Pompeo who initiated sanctions against ICC judges because they may investigate war crimes committed by US and their allies, specifically Israel this time (being appropriately a racist shit, too, Pompeo started - with no particular reason - with sanctions against black judges). The question why not even late war criminals like Kissinger will ever be prosecuted is, though, apparently structural in nature, nothing personal. Hitchens, for example, among other things, discloses the intermingling of lobbyists and Nixon-Kissinger gang which can be somehow put within the economic terms of "rational" self-interest.

Of course, one could argue that nothing in international world order will be lost if Western countries actually really cared about international law and human rights and shed the hypocrisy - actually, the order would be strengthened - but this would require fighting against very powerful enemies within. As for now - being from the weak country forced to choose its protector, we can only put such choice in terms of lesser evilism, or even in terms of bondage, whereby one is free to exploit semiotic possibilities offered both by associations with feudalism and S&M.