He expresses perplexity at what he deems a "certain, extraordinary insecurity" on Kissinger's part, which he traces back to Kissinger's origins as a young Jewish refugee from Nazism.
We need more reporting in the vein of the Associated Press' recent examination of the extraordinary insecurity that seems to be driving the early days of the Trump presidency.
Children, he says, are living in a "climate of extraordinary insecurity and fear".
That so many Europeans continue to welcome the cosmopolitan culture of our continent, against the background din of far-right rhetoric which feeds on people's insecurity, is extraordinary.
"They live in an environment of extraordinary fear, violence and insecurity, and on top of that they've had a very, very difficult summer with a lot of incursions, a lot of shelling," he says.
Over 800,000 children have been exposed to extraordinary levels of violence and insecurity, some 1,600 have been injured and more than 300 children have died.
"It's an opportunity for children to be children, which is rare here in Gaza, because they live in an environment of extraordinary fear and violence and insecurity".
We know that over 800,000 children have been exposed to extraordinary levels of violence and insecurity over the past weeks, and they will need immediate and lasting assistance.
Like the singer in Stephen Sondheim's "Someone in a Tree" who recalls eavesdropping on crucial U.S.-Japan negotiations -- "Underneath the floor/And so I can't see anything/But I can hear" -- I had a front-row seat and a backstage pass to the insights and the insecurities of an extraordinary collection of minds, hearts, and ears.
Can you make someone with extraordinary skill but with deep-seated insecurities believe that he can thrive in the last two minutes?
Decades after Deng Xiaoping warned against "the leadership of a single person," China is reëntering a period in which the fortunes of a fifth of humanity hinge, to an extraordinary degree, on the visions, impulses, and insecurities of a solitary figure.
