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Tom Switzer

Henry Kissinger was an inconsistent opportunist

America’s 20th century foreign policy giant and statesman was driven more by domestic considerations than he would ever have admitted.

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No one involved in US politics, apart from a few presidents, has been subjected to as many books and biographies as Henry Kissinger, who died this week at age 100. When he was national security adviser and secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations from 1969-77, he bestrode the global stage like a geopolitical colossus.

Henry Kissinger in his heyday as US secretary of state in 1973. AP

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Tom Switzer is executive director at the Centre for Independent Studies and is an outgoing presenter on ABC Radio National.

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