(February 26, 2023 at 9:20 am)Belacqua Wrote: "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” ~ Henry Kissinger
The context is advice Kissinger was giving the Nixon administration on handling the leader of a South Vietnamese coup:
Quote:"Nixon should be told that it is probably a goal of (Johnson’s Defense Secretary) Clifford to remove Thieu (South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu) before Nixon takes office. One should tell Nixon that if Thieu suffers the same fate as Diem, the nations of the world will learn that being America's enemy may be dangerous, but being America's friend is fatal.”
In other words, Kissinger was speaking about a hypothetical circumstance that would result in a very bad distrust of America. You're either ignorant of this context, or you deliberately stripped it away in order to completely misrepresent what Kissinger said.
I personally lean towards you practicing deliberate misrepresentation. Dishonesty seems to be the cut of your jib.
