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Eric Alterman referenced this quote from Todd Gitlin in an entry on his blog about the Kissinger-9/11 probe announcement:

If you're a college professor who tells students that you saw combat in Vietnam when you were actually teaching history at West Point, your lie will land on the front page of the New York Times and provide debate fodder in the letters columns, on National Public Radio and wherever else serious people reason together. On the other hand, if you're a serial liar who claims to have brought peace to Vietnam while presiding over pointless deaths in the hundreds of thousands (more than 22,000 Americans, the rest Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians), you'll never dine alone or lack for honors; you'll be lionized by Ted Koppel and your book of International Studies 101 pieties will be treated as "an intellectual event...that is also a tour de force" (Walter Russell Mead in the Washington Post).

That sums up the Kissinger complex well. The quote is from a Salon book review from last year.