Spengler............................

........................is not impressed with our old friend Henry.

Kissinger’s current recommendations for the Middle East, outlined in an Oct. 16 essay in the Wall Street Journal, treat the region’s players as if they were fixed entities that can be manipulated into a stable balance of power. It is obvious, though, that nothing is fixed about these entities, and this leads Kissinger to torture logic until it expires on the rack. 

Spengler's full essay is here.  Nevertheless, Niall Ferguson's new biography of Kissinger still sits in my Amazon shopping cart.