A dubious conclusion at best. Personally, I'm not a starry-eyed idealist who rejects on its face the idea that unpleasant things must sometimes be done for the greater good of the world or even simply our nation. But I fail to see how many of the crimes Kissinger is accused of --- East Timor, to take just one --- improved the security of the United States or of the world. And the odd thing is that Buckley seems neither to forcefully advance that defense --- that it was all justified to save the world --- nor does he even seem to challenge the facts and accusations as presented by Hitchens.

He just seems to want us to leave poor Henry alone.

Obviously others have done the vast majority of the work for me on this piece, so here's a few high-level links to collections of information that were invaluable to me in this writing:

KissingerWatch

The National Security Archives

The Christopher Hitchens Web

The Case Against Henry Kissinger, Part I (Harper's)

The Case Against Henry Kissinger, Part II (Harper's)