The Trials of Henry Kissinger

There's some irony in Christopher Hitchens being the central plank in this attack on Kissinger for pompously pursuing fame via the endorsement of illegal wars.

Kissinger played American politicians like a flute & was rewarded in turn (as this doco would have you believe) with being involved directly or indirectly in all genocide that occurred in South East Asian nations throughout the late 60's, early 70's. All seemingly under the banner of that era's -ism threat.

A brisk documentary that provides a superficial look at very complicated matters, although the thread that runs through is convincing and alarming. Reasonably, this would have been better suited as some kind of TV series. As a documentary that provides in-depth and illuminating answers, it's not too satisfying. As a documentary that asks very good questions, it is well done and recommendable.

Certainly very scathing but I must say it seems to put all the blame on Kissinger personally and not the system that allows such things to happen. Eugene Jarecki has acknowledged this and his next documentary Why We Fight addresses this. Now, with that said, this is still a very good documentary. It raises very scathing questions and calls for justice.