HENRY Kissinger, who sexed up the art of diplomacy in the eight years between 1969 and 1977, has died at the age of 100. In the obituaries that have been written, some laud Kissinger’s role in the shaping of East-West relations while he was in office as US Secretary of State. And many in their commentary on the decades beyond call him a “statesman”. PETER VALE, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria Radical critics have pointed to Kissinger’s ruthless…