A Kissinger Interview

Toby Harnden, the Washington bureau chief for The Sunday Times (U.K.), interviews Henry Kissinger on what to do about ISIS. Kissinger quotes from the RealClearPolitics article follow:

We should launch an all-out attack on them,” he says, adding that it should be “of limited duration as a punitive measure”. He describes the actions of Isis, also known as Islamic State, as “an insult to our values and to our society” that demands a “very significant retaliation”.

“There can’t be any debate any more about fighting them.”

Under President Barack Obama, he charges, “we have made ourselves bystanders” in the Middle East until now.

“This could be very substantial — on most known targets — and I would not make any distinction between Syria and Iraq. In my view this should have happened already.”

Kissinger says not a word about nation-building in the region. His recommendation is basically kinetic Whack-A-Mole - if you see a bad guy kill him. There is lots more Kissinger in the article, not focused on ISIS, but about what foreign policy should be based upon.