“The worry” of many countries throughout the world, says Henry Kissinger, “is not so much about American presence, it’s about American absence.” On CBS’s Face the Nation, the former secretary of state and Nobel Peace Prize laureate observed: “The fundamental public statements of the administration have emphasized more what we should not do than what we can achieve. They have implied that a withdrawal of America from certain regions is actually beneficial to these regions.”
Kissinger noted the obvious consequence: “I think that the fear in the countries that I know — and that’s very many of them — is that the United States is withdrawing.”
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