Let's get our war criminals straight

Seeing his name in the headlines again makes me cringe. Anecdotes about his childhood, subtly exalted recitations of his 'accomplishments' and forgiving glimpses into his psyche leave me aghast. The only thing i want to hear about this man is that he's finally going to prison for his crimes; the only photo i want to see of him is not a grinning, Armani-clad snapshot taken in some exclusive men's club, but rather, a sullen, orange jumpsuit-clad mugshot taken behind a throw-away-the-keys prison wall. i am not talking about Ratko Mladic, though it's a relief to see him finally on the dock in Den Hague. The man i'm referring to here is the war criminal who never was, the man who turned diplomacy into a killing game, the greatest mocker of international justice in my lifetime: Henry Kissinger.

Shame on The Independent for running this article on how Kissinger "is the perfect person for the job" of cleaning up FIFA's dirty laundry. To suggest that any international body should trust this man, give him even a modicum of decision-making power, is absolutely ludicrous. That the paper does so on the same day it runs a story on Mladic's first ICC appearance and puts his use of 'monstrous' to describe the charges against him in quotes shows a willingness to engage in double standards which is disheartening from this otherwise fairly responsible publication.

i like The Independent and will still continue to read it, but what were the editors thinking when they approved a sympathetic profile of Kissinger? It is insulting to readers and especially victims of known war crimes to present the perpetrators as anything other than exactly that. Just because America's Voldemort was able to slither around that country's potholed legal system does not make him innocent or his crimes forgivable, if not forgettable. The man fled Germany to escape nazism and we all know what the zionist holocaust industry constantly tell us when it comes to that gang of war criminals: 'Never forget!' Right. When dealing with Kissinger, that works for me.