Word: argumentative
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...hard to accuse him of partial and selective history-making in a book where he focuses almost exclusively on prescriptions for the future. Except for a section that discusses and dismisses the notion of universal jurisdiction, there is also little to connect the book to the argument offered by Christopher Hitchens, author of the new book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, that Kissinger is a “war criminal...
Kissinger includes the required argument in favor of a national ballistic missile shield here, but it is not his best effort. His explanation of why he urged Nixon to sign the anti-ballistic missile treaty sounds fishy (he says he was against it but the administration was backed into the treaty by domestic pressure), and he does a far better job of outlining the arguments against a shield than in rebutting them...
...claim that Kissinger’s fear influenced his political argument stems from a broader inquiry Hitchens makes into Kissinger’s celebrity status—an inquiry that relates closely to Kissinger’s new book...
...these issues. Kissinger steadfastly refuses to enter into the question of whether these principles are important enough to ever outrank geopolitics, instead presenting them as esoteric details imposed on statesmen by an ignorant public. He never enters into the question of where national interest comes from and dodges the argument that it is these domestic preferences that gives statesmen and geopolitics its direction...
...argument most troubling to me is one unique to Chapel Hill and Carolina. Through this development push by Carolina, in the course of one year, town-gown relations between Carolina and Chapel Hill have gone from exemplary to abysmal. When I arrived in Cambridge, I marveled at how poorly Harvard and Cambridge got along. Today, Harvard-Cambridge relations seem quite normal (and Harvard’s relationship with Cambridge has remained as chilly as ever during the last two years...