37 years later? Nixon is portrayed as the bigot.

I have to admit, sometimes I am slow on the uptake. Perhaps not as savvy as the sophisticated class and those in tune with all the subtle nuances of geopolitical gamesmanship.

Yet I am almost certain, that on balance, I still speak, read and understand the English language relatively well. And as such, I am usually able to comprehend even the most oblique commentaries and observations by those who sit in their lofty towers interpreting daily events for us lesser than sophisticated and ill informed souls.

Not so today.

Kissinger Satisfies Few With Apology

Jewish historians are dismissing an apology by Henry Kissinger, offered over the weekend in response to a 1973 recording of him saying that sending Jews to a Soviet gas chamber "is not an American concern."
The 37-year-old comment by the former secretary of state followed immediately after a conversation Kissinger and President Richard Nixon had with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
In the meeting, Meir asked the U.S. to pressure the Soviet Union to release its Jews. Nixon and Kissinger declined.
"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy," Kissinger is reportedly heard saying on the tape. "And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
"I know. We can't blow up the world because of it," Nixon reportedly replied. 

Writing an op-ed that appeared Sunday in The Washington Post, Kissinger said it was unfortunate that his words were taken out of context. 
"The conversation at issue arose not as a policy statement by me but in response to a request by the president," Kissinger said, explaining that Nixon had wanted two senators to withdraw an amendment to trade negotiations that would have tied Jewish emigration to most-favored nation status. The amendment, known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment, passed into law anyway, chilling the detente that Nixon had pursued with the USSR.
"My answer tried to sum up that context in a kind of shorthand that, when read 37 years later, is undoubtedly offensive," Kissinger wrote. 

So, the vaunted Henry Kissinger (legendary Jew extraordinaire) is found to have made remarks not only less than favorable to his own people? But his explanation for the commentary is no more imaginative than to assert the dog eared retort that he was simply taken out of context. (Aren't they all?)

Well do excuse me Mr. Kissinger, I can only assume that I am amongst millions who would love to hear you elaborate on the proper context of those remarks. Either in the present day context or retrospectively thirty seven years.  Perhaps it is really one of those subtle nuance things that we are always hearing about as it concerns international diplomacy. But please don't bore us with that inane and less than original three card monty that you attempted to play in the editorial pages of the Washington Post on Sunday.

Go ahead. Please do enlighten me and the many others that are obviously lost and in the dark on the subtleties of your expertise in international diplomacy Mr. Kissinger and your use of the language to placate an otherwise bigoted president, for fear of not be chic in the most intimate of insider moments.

Go ahead Mr. Kissinger.  On second thought? Spare me. I have seen the recipe for turning chicken manure into chicken salad before and yours is less than original.