Volume 22, Number 10 · June 12, 1975
Good Henry & Bad Henry
By Garry Wills
The Kissinger Experience: American Policy in the Middle East
by Gil Carl AlRoy
Horizon Press, 189 pp., $7.95
This book is enough to give criticizing Kissinger a bad name. It repeats and inflates every charge made against him, describing his admitted egotism as 'bordering on pathology.' It blames the very inception of the Yom Kippur war on him. It claims that he tried to engineer an Israeli defeat, and that he cheated the Israelis of the victory they achieved despite his efforts against them. It concludes that 'the Kissingerian offensive may set back what chances there were for peace in the Middle East by perhaps as much as a generation.' For, as the war died down, Kissinger 'raced into the embrace of Sadat.'
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