Is the time-tested Kissinger pattern doomed to repeat itself?

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Curtiss, Richard H | Copyright information

Richard H. Curtiss is executive editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

Henry A. Kissinger was one of the lucky German refugees who immigrated to the United States in 1938, after his family realized that nothing good would happen as Adolf Hitler increased his influence in their native country. Born into a family of Orthodox Jews, he was called Heinz Alfred before he Americanized his name. It was a little too late for Kissinger to correct his thick German accent, however...

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