National Security Matters – Foreign Policy

Thinking about the world situation today and our nation’s foreign policy, I cannot help but recognize the passing last year of Henry Kissinger. The man was a foreign policy genius for most of his lifetime until the very end. He was a protégé of Nelson Rockefeller and served as national security advisor and secretary of state to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Privately for the last century, he continued to author best-sellers on the subject and advise future administrations. He understood the world as few others have. We lost a lot with Dr. Kissinger and Joe Biden never received the handoff. As Robert Gates (national security advisor and defense secretary for George W. Bush and Barack Ob