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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions for Henry Kissinger in 2011 | Back In TIME [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions for Henry Kissinger in 2011 | Back In TIME](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Wig1PDq6.m3u8) (6:41)  _Published 2023-11-30. Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State known for his realist approach to foreign policy during the Nixon and Ford administrations, has died. 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Did create a sense of cooperation and Community will be the Chinese. How would you respond to that if I ask myself when I look at World War 1? if the Statesman that decided to go to World War 1 had known what to build with look like 2 years after that for what they did not have made another effort. to find a more peaceful solution We are in that position with China we can let things drift. In a competitive relationship all over the world what we can both sides make an effort. To see whether a parallel evolution is possible. about the developments It's a tremendous historical event that the people in these countries are asserting their claim to participate in the government. But the history of Revolution shows dead beat. Lucian is a coming together of an idiot resentments that don't necessarily agree with each other. After did it first Outpost challenges how to do it out these various resentments and establish a common direction. That is why almost invariably in the history of evolution. The first group of revolutionaries get overtaken. But some of the groups so the challenge we have now. It's good to see how we can contribute. Do a democratic Revolution that is in the first scene of the First Act of a five-act play hard because former Secretary of State such as yourself and others might face prosecution under its auspices. Do you believe this is true? We are not a member of the international code has a better chance. If occasion than to feel the ticket days of state would be put before the game record. The reason it's that this is that if it is left to prosecutors that are drawn from a variety of country to very often cannot understand what the issues are and that it had started a process where some American officials. I did nothing to travel abroad for fear that somebody will launch some sort of indictment against them and if that becomes a method by which a kind of diplomacy is conducted so I do not say that the international criminal court. I don't know how to go about it. many years ago with myself now mostly for fear of myself. I guess a lot of people will be surprised how dumb you are towards China which is still a communist Nation. When the Communist Chinese was the sort of propulsive threat on the Vietnam War. So people might think that you have to change positions on it has two elements. You can't have peace without equilibrium. but you can't even equilibrium unless people think it is just so you have to work on both problems simultaneously office bendable 550,000 Americans already in place. You can that you can turn that off like a television channel. Our single objective was that the people of South Vietnam should have the opportunity to choose their own fate. If that wasn't to you, we would leave until it was a chief. We withdrew gradually when the North Vietnamese agreed. Do a sort of democratic process in this house been resettled. That's the essence of it. It was not a question of not wanting to be and someday an accurate history of the Vietnam war with Britain. for the sake of of American Unity Thank you so much. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Questions for Henry Kissinger in 2011 | Back In TIME","description":"Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State known for his realist approach to foreign policy during the Nixon and Ford administrations, has died. 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