Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History . WOW ! I read all kinds of authors , even Hitlers Mein Kampf and Henry Kissinger s Global Order , which came out earlier this year. Kissinger identifies four great :world orders in history - the European , Islamic , Chinese and American. Japan, Russia and especially India are not of great consequence ;-) His understanding is of the practicality of the Westphalian Order which the Europeans reached after 30 Years War (1618-48) when Total War against populations killed off almost 25% of Central Europe peoples by combat,starvation and disease . There is Peace because no one can really win over the others and contradictory philosophies and aspirations have to learn to live in a kind of ceasefire while it lasts . Kissinger believes that no multi-polar world is happening but a world of contradictory realities. And there will be no world of balance and cooperation without active attention and participation. And there are only two players now for him China and USA . Just as the rise of Germany caused the imbalance in the Imperial powers and caused the two World Wars , the rise of USSR caused the Cold War . Now China is the real issue . The Western powers are the sensible ones . Rest are all actually kind of barbarians who do not understand Rule-of-Law . He doesnt see Wars but different sphere of influences developing , Islamic, Chinese and the Euro-American with many failed and ungovernable states . And he is a total believer in the Temple on the Hill of American exceptionality America-as the modern worlds decisive articulation of the human conquest for freedom , and an indispensable geopolitical force for the vindication of humane values - must retain its sense of direction. And ends the Conclusion of the book with I now know that historys meaning is a matter to be discovered not declared . And throughout the book its declared that only and only USA can really be the discoverer ! Some stuff about Kissinger and South Asia to refresh memories. This master manipulator who would have liked USA to demolish the Indian Forces and support Pakistan in the Bangladesh War . Who won the Nobel Peace Prize ! In his powerful new book in 2013 The Blood Telegram, Gary J Bass, a professor at Princeton University, exposed how US President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger allied with the killers, the Pakistani government in then East Pakistan, as it unleashed genocide on a horrific scale. Professor Bass discusses Nixon and Kissingers moral blindness, why they hated India and then prime minister Indira Gandhi, and their plan to draw China into the conflict. The slaughter in what is now Bangladesh stands as one of the cardinal moral challenges of recent history, Bass writes in The Blood Telegram, although today it is far more familiar to South Asians than to Americans. It had a monumental impact on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh -- almost a sixth of humanity in 1971. In the dark annals of modern cruelty, it ranks as bloodier than Bosnia and by some accounts in the same rough league as Rwanda. But Pakistans slaughter of its Bengalis in 1971 is starkly different. Here the United States was allied with the killers. The White House was actively and knowingly supporting a murderous regime at many of the most crucial moments. There was no question about whether the United States should intervene; it was already intervening on behalf of a military dictatorship decimating its own people. This stands as one of the worst moments of moral blindness in US foreign policy. Pakistans crackdown on the Bengalis was not routine or small-scale killing, not something that could be dismissed as business as usual, but a colossal and systematic onslaught. rediff/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-1971-war-why-nixon-kissinger-hated-india-indira-gandhi/20131216.htm amazon/World-Order-Henry-Kissinger/dp/1594206147
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