Kissinger: US foreign policy 'very responsive to the emotion of the moment'
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a new interview that modern U.S. diplomacy is "very responsive to the emotion of the moment.” “I think that the current period has a great trouble defining a direction. It’s very responsive to the emotion of the moment,” Kissinger told The Wall Street Journal. The 99-year-old Kissinger noted that U.S. leadership is focused on condemning ideas it disagrees with,
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Read More1 dead, 17 injured after after car strikes crowd at community fundraiser
One person was killed and 17 others injured when a man drove a vehicle through a crowd on Saturday, according to police in Pennsylvania. The suspect, 24-year-old Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, left the scene and assaulted and killed a woman in a neighboring county before he was apprehended, Pennsylvania State Police said. Reyes was charged with two counts of criminal homicide, denied bail and remanded to a correctional facility in Columbia County, where the first attack occurred,
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