Henry Kissinger Explains Why U.S. Is More Divided Now Than During Vietnam
Speaking to the U.K.’s Sunday Times, the 99-year-old statesman said the U.S. is “infinitely more” divided now and highlighted the differences between the 1970s and modern politics. Most notably, he said, there had been a reduction in the possibility of bipartisanship. “The national interest was a meaningful term, it was not in itself a subject of debate,” he said. “That has ended. Every administration now faces the unremitting hostility of the opposition and in a way that is built on different premises....