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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
''The Trial of Henry Kissinger'' (2001) is Christopher Hitchens' examination of alleged war crimes of Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and later United States Secretary of State for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Acting in the role of the prosecution, Hitchens presents Kissinger's involvement in a series of alleged war crimes in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus and East Timor.
==Summary==
In the words of Hitchens, Kissinger deserves prosecution "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture."〔(- Amazon )〕 He further calls him "a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Trial of Henry Kissinger )〕
The book takes the form of a prosecutorial document, as Hitchens limits his critique to such charges as he believes might stand up in an international court of law following precedents set at Nuremberg and elsewhere. These link Kissinger to war casualties in Vietnam, massacres in Bangladesh and Timor and assassinations in Chile, Cyprus, and Washington, D.C. Hitchens, who was a writer for ''Vanity Fair'' and ''The Nation'', had a history of skewering Democrats (he is the author of a provocative book on the Clintons, ''No One Left to Lie To'') as well as Republicans.
The book is written from an authorial position of moral outrage, and calls for Americans not to ignore Kissinger's record. In the author's words, "They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Trial of Henry Kissinger )〕
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