Henry Kissinger leaves behind a poisonous legacy of callous geopolitical calculus

Open this photo in gallery: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addresses a conference in Istanbul, on May 31, 2007.Osman Orsal/Reuters Elizabeth Becker is the author of five books, including When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution. The 1969 illegal bombing of neutral Cambodia was one of Henry Kissinger's first major policy recommendations as national security adviser to U.S. president Richard M. Nixon. It was also his most catastrophic, having led to the expansion of the American war into Cambodia and opened the door to the Cambodian communists known as the Khmer Rouge. I witnessed…