From communism to terrorism, the threat is real and must be faced

SOME of the people who marched for peace last Saturday were probably relaxing in front of their televisions when RTÉ screened The Trials of Henry Kissinger on Sunday night.

They may well have felt a sense of retrospective justification as the past evils of United States foreign policy unfolded before them.

During Kissinger's time as US National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, the US secretly bombed Cambodia as part of its Vietnam War strategy, acquiesced in the invasion and rape of East Timor by Indonesia, and helped plot the successful coup which ousted the Chilean government in 1973.