More than that, centrists don't like being reminded that their favorite human was friends with and admired a war criminal. So they have to pretend that Kissinger wasn't as bad as he was.
Every President has called on Kissinger at some point. Even Obama. It’s no surprise at all that HRC would have a professional relationship and even a friendship with the man considering his presence in the administration during her tenure. He never let himself drift far from the seats of power. Ever.
Kissinger was perfectly happy to make himself useful in some way to perpetuate his view of the geopolitical world.
E: Don’t believe me?
Kissinger visited the White House to advise President Barack Obama more than once. And in 2016, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter presented Kissinger with a distinguished public service award from the Defense Department.
Every President has called on Kissinger at some point. Even Obama
You say this like people didn't realize Obama lied about being progressive a decade ago...
Dude was neoliberal thru and they. It's just he was so (relatively) young no one knew his first election, and the second there wasn't a primary so the only other option in the general was R
It’s not meant to be. It’s an inference that the Cold War anti-commie imperialist way of thinking never stopped. As much as we’d like to think that there is dynamic change with each new president, there really isn’t that much other than the surface diplomacy. The US has been conducting geopolitical business very much the same as it has been for multiple decades. That should be pretty obvious when you view our involvement in world events.