Henry Kissinger died this week at age 100, so Hell just got more tedious. The man who fled Nazi antisemitism in 1938 built a career in US politics that gave him unprecedented power in two Republican administrations, which translated into the deaths of millions in Southeast Asia, Chile and elsewhere.
Power, he said, was the ultimate aphrodisiac (explaining his sexual success despite looking like a constipated toad),
the ultimate Axe spray. It’ll take a while to get the stench out of the elevators of statecraft.
Our earworm today was written before Kissinger
rode into power with Nixon, but it is one of Bob Dylan’s most powerful polemics
against the forces Kissinger represented. Here’s Eddie Vedder singing “Masters
of War” as the Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert.
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