Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, dies at age 100

It was that act that, decades later, led Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to describe Kissinger as "one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country" in a televised Democratic primary debate with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in February 2016. Illustrating Kissinger's continued divisiveness well into his 90s, Clinton had been criticized by progressives during the campaign after she called her Nixon-era predecessor a "friend" on whom she had relied for political advice. Others went further in their criticisms. The late author Christopher Hitchens was among those who believed Kissinger should have been…