Listening to Henry K.
Henry Kissinger's appearance at our Book of the Year event Monday night, and what he said there, was a significant news story. Andrew Bostom listened carefully to the audio clip of Kissinger's speech that we posted here, and found it important:
I just listened to a brief audio of Henry Kissinger at the Norman (Podhoretz)-Fest sponsored by Power Line earlier this week.Remarkably, Kissinger briefly drops the PC mask and says at about 7:40 to 8:00 of the audio posted (see direct audio link within this post) how, in a “deeper sense” what is threatened (now my words, by the global jihad) is the “secular” basis (Henry’s words) for “any society within the reach of Islam,”—he does not interject prophylactic rhetorical qualifiers such as “Islam-ism,” or “radical Islam,”—tacitly acknowledging a former commonsensical understanding that such words were in fact synonymous with “Islam”, but now dangerously abandoned to uphold corrosive modern PC fantasies about Islam.
Is Kissinger, now safely out of the limelight, finally (better late than never!) tapping into the wisdom on Islam (expressed with unfettered intellectual honesty) of great American statesmen like John Quincy Adams (see here), and Theodore Roosevelt?
Follow the link for Andrew's links and Theodore Roosevelt's history lesson.
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