US foreign policy under Henry Kissinger cost thousands of lives

Ryle Dwyer looks at the legacy of destruction and chaos left behind by former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and the lessons it has for us today 

THIS week I was asked to speak at University College, Cork, on the development of Irish sovereignty. It reminded me of how I became interested in history at university in Texas 50 years ago.

Two courses in history were required of every student at the university and I took a course on European history between the world wars. We had to write a paper and I wrote on the cause of the Irish civil war.