One hundred years ago, Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in Furth, Germany. This past week he made headlines throughout the world with his reflections on the shifting geopolitical realities of Central Europe. It was as if he chose to send the world a centennial birthday greeting that he remains, as he has been for 70 years, an outstandingly lucid and perceptive authority on the strategic balances and constantly shifting correlation of forces between the major powers of the world. What an astonishing century he has had. No one could possibly have imagined in Henry Kissinger’s early youth that the European...