Nixon and Kissinger were among the “pragmatist” types in
US foreign policy who for decades have preferred dealing with dictators to dealing with democracies - if this is the alternative to neo-conservatism, I’ll go with neo-conservatism every time. Indira Gandhi was a socialist windbag, but she was the elected leader of a democracy. Around the same time, Kissinger and Nixon were meeting with Chou En-Lai and Mao, with Kissinger messing himself over the high privilege of exchanging a few words with Mao, one of history’s greatest tyrants and mass murderers.
God Bless Richard Nixon. One of the best Presidents ever.
I guess they figured they had to talk to Mao to do so.
Realism trumps bringing “Democracy” to savages who have no Democratic tradition. I really wish that the Wilsonian Neocons would get purged Stalin-style or, at the very least, sent back to the Dems.