NP Kissenger

[Doug Millison]

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). 

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/07/03/kissinger/index.html