Kissinger's Contradictions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : President Harry Truman's secretary of state, Dean Acheson, comes close.
55% : After more than six decades on the world's stage, during which he both brilliantly persuaded and deceived the powerful and created state-to-state relationships that survive him, Henry Kissinger now belongs to the history he helped make.
50% : The only American official ever to have held all of the levers of foreign-policy making -- for two years he served simultaneously as national security adviser and secretary of state -- he has no peers in the history of U.S. foreign relations in the superpower era.
50% : He almost became secretary of state again as part of a co-presidency briefly considered by former California Governor Ronald Reagan and former U.S. President Gerald Ford during the Republican Convention in 1980.
36% : But when the shah of Iran, for his own reasons, decided to settle a border dispute with Iraq and withdraw his support in 1975, Kissinger did nothing as Iraqi forces brutalized the Kurds.

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