Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the opinion of Dr. Henry Kissinger
This too famous, too important, too lucky man [i.e. Henry Kissinger] , whom they call Superman, Superstar, Superkraut, and who stitches together paradoxical alliances, reaches impossible agreements, keeps the world holding its breath as though the world were his students at Harvard………. but he advises on wars, ends wars, pretends to change our destiny, and does change it. But still, who is Henry Kissinger?........ the story of his life is the object of research bordering on a cult, simultaneously paradoxical and grotesque, so everyone knows that he was born in Fuerth, Germany, in 1923, son of Louis Kissinger, a high-school teacher, and Paula Kissinger, a housewife. Everyone knows that his family is Jewish, that fourteen of his relatives died in the concentration camps, that together with his father and mother and his brother Walter he fled in 1938 to London and then to New York………. Indeed it was in Krefeld that his passion for politics flowered, a passion that was gratified by his becoming an adviser to Kennedy and Johnson, later the presidential aide to Nixon, finally his secretary of state, until he came to be considered the second most powerful man in America. And already at that time, some maintained he was much more, as is shown by the joke that for years made the rounds of Washington. “Just think what would happen if Kissinger died. Richard would become president of the United States!”
After fifteen minutes of conversation, when I was biting my nails for having accepted this absurd interview from the man I was supposed to interview, he forgot a little about Vietnam, and, in the tone of zealous reporter, asked me which heads of state impressed me most. (He likes the word “impress.”) Resigned, I listed them. He agreed with me primarily on Bhutto. “Very intelligent, very brilliant.” He did not agree about Indira Gandhi…….. Of another head of state, of whom I had said that he did not seem to me highly intelligent but that I had liked him very much, he said, “It’s not intelligence that’s important in a head of state. The quality that counts in a head of state is strength. Courage, shrewdness and strength.”
Washington, November 1972
Extract from the book ‘Interview with History’ by Oriana Fallaci
……… But in another sense, he reminds you of John Kennedy. Like Kennedy, he grew up in the kind of wealth for which nothing is impossible, not even the conquest of political power, cost what it may. Like Kennedy, he had comfortable, happy, privileged childhood. Like Kennedy, he began his rise to power very early.
The fact is he comes from a family of aristocrats and landowners. He studied at Berkeley and then at Oxford, taking his degree in international law. At slightly more than thirty, he was one of Ayub Khan’s ministers, though he detested him. At slightly less than forty, he was one of Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan’s ministers, though he despised him. He arrived at the presidency with painful patience….
Oriana Fallaci: one last question, Mr. President, and excuse the brutality of it. Do you think you can last?
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Let’s put it this way. I could be finished tomorrow, but I think I’ll last longer than anyone else who’s governed Pakistan. First of all because I’m healthy and full of energy- I can work, as I do, even eighteen hours a day. Then because I’m young – I’m barely fourty-four, ten years younger than Mrs. Gandhi. Finally because I know what I want. I’m the only leader in the Third world who has gone back into politics despite the opposition of two great powers-in 1966 the United States and the Soviet Union were both very happy to see me in trouble. And the reason I’ve been able to overcome that trouble is that I know the fundamental rule of this profession.
Karachi, April 1972
Almost everyone in the world was sad on April 4, 1979 to know that due to the split decision of Supreme Court and by the orders of President Zia ul Haque, Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on false charge, was martyred.
One widely reported characteristic of McCarty has stood the test of research: his personal charisma and popularity. Various accounts recorded by friends and acquaintances describe him as fun-loving and jolly, articulate in both his writing and his speech, and loyal to those for whom he cared. He was fluent in Spanish, popular with Latina girls, an accomplished dancer, and thus especially well-loved within the territory's Hispanic community. There, he was regarded as a champion of the oppressed."His many Hispanic friends did not view him as a ruthless killer but rather as a defender of the people who were forced to kill in self-defense," Wallis writes. "In the time that the Kid roamed the land he chided Hispanic villagers who were fearful of standing up to the big ranchers who stole their land, water, and way of life"
Willie Boy: Maybe, But they’ll know I’ve been here.
-Abraham Polonsky (1910-). Tell them Wiliie Boy is Here!(film) 1969, spoken by Robert Blake.
Tell Them Willie Boy is here is a Technicolor movie released in 1969, based on the true story of a Paiute Indian named Willie Boy and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States. The movie was written and directed by the once blacklisted Abraham Polonsky, who could not direct a film since "Force of Evil" 21 years earlier in 1948.
When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear. –Dalton Trumbo. Spartacus (film), 1960, spoken by Kirk Douglas (in the title role)
‘May you continue to lead your countrymen in majesty, courage and strength, for a lifetime and in peace.’ – Ovadia Yosef, an Israeli spiritual leader, wishing ailing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak well in a surprising display of goodwill towards an Arab head of state. Yosef, known for acerbic [bitter] comments, has said that ‘God regrets creating Arabs”
In the coming world, they will not ask me: “Why were you not Moses?” They will ask me: “Why were you not Zusya?” –Zusya(?-1800). Before his death. In Martin Buber, “Zusya of Hanipol,” Tales of the Hasidam: The Early Masters, tr. Olga Marx, 1947
Next will be an article about Arabs and Muslims massive contributions in the field of unified science, theology and philosophy mathematics, algebra, medicine, astronomy, ophthalmology, surgery, education, law and architecture.
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