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Henry Kissinger, how I'm missin ya

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.07.03

I saw a fleeting reference to Henry Kissinger on a news clip about the international war crimes court that's being set up at the UN.

There's an author in the 'States that's repeating the summary of Kissinger's career by calling the man a war criminal. How fitting, I suppose, that he should have had a position of honour at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, handing out awards. As I told my then girlfriend at the time, "Ah the sights you see without a *****.".

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One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force