Mehdi Hasan didn’t pull a fist Thursday when he highlighted Henry Kissinger’s upcoming 100th birthday.
Hasan gave a blistering monologue about the former secretary of state to former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, saying he wanted to celebrate the diplomat’s historic birthday this Saturday by talking about “some of the many, many people around the world who none to live to 100, or even 60, 70, or 80, because of Henry Kissinger, because of his support of brutal dictators, brutal regimes, brutal wars and war crimes.
Hasan noted that Kissinger extended the Vietnam War, supported the 1976 military coup in Argentina, supported the 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor, among other actions estimated to have led to 4 million civilian lives.
“Unfortunately I could go on,” Hasan complained.
“So congratulations Henry, pat yourself on the back for living such a long life, and still a free man,” Hasan concluded. “It’s a shame that so many millions of victims of your policy can’t say the same thing.”