Did Henry Kissinger Further U.S. National Interests or Harm Them?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Kissinger decided rightly that serving as the U.S. secretary of state was more important than teaching.
54% : He was also an effective bureaucratic operator and even managed to get himself appointed as both national security advisor and secretary of state at the same time.
54% : He had some notable foreign-policy successes, but so did many other national security advisors and secretaries of state.
43% : Indeed, looking at the White House today and its inability to navigate the war in Ukraine or the current chaos in the Middle East, one might wish that we had some people in government who were as creative or as flexible in their thinking as Kissinger.

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