When someone dies at Henry Kissinger’s age, it’s inevitable that the comment: “But wasn’t he dead?” With Kissinger we can never be sure of anything, but it seems that he was indeed still alive until last November 29, exactly one month ago, when he passed away at the age of one hundred years, six months and two days
The most curious thing is that, by virtue of the ephemerides, these last thirty days I have not stopped finding him. I found it as secondary to Gold a , the film that reconstructs from the point of view of the Israeli prime minister the nineteen days of the Yom Kippur war. I have also found him as a key figure in some conspiratorial plots that have been put back into circulation on the occasion of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Carrero Blanco’s murder.
It should be remembered that Kissinger was in charge of the US Secretary of State for just over three years. In such a short time, despite everything, he was able to leave a long and bloody footprint in places like Chile, Argentina or East Timor. He had the sacred mission of stopping international communism and this required him to multiply, to be everywhere at the same time.
The same Kissinger who in October 1973 traveled to Israel to meet with Golda Meir in the midst of the Yom Kippur war, two months later was interviewed in Madrid with a Carrero Blanco who was a day and a half away from being shot towards the sky of Calle Claudio Coello.
That Kennedy and the CIA were behind the Carrero attack is an absurd, far-fetched hypothesis. What interest could the United States have in destabilizing a submissive and manageable regime with an imminent end? And why should Carlos Arias Navarro seem preferable to Carrero? And what sense does it make for the global champion of anti-Marxism to encourage the activities of a Marxist organization, such as the ETA of those years?
Finally, some want to turn Carrero into our Kennedy and, in order to make a place for themselves in the world of alternative truths, they are willing to distort reality until it is unrecognizable.
The film about Golda Meir, like many other political films, leaves with the feeling that one’s hair has been pulled a little. The numbers of soldiers killed on Yom Kippur are confusing: about two thousand five hundred on the Israeli side and about fifteen thousand on the coalition of Syrians and Egyptians. In Golda Meir, the Iron Lady, who did not hesitate to send so many young people to the slaughterhouse, we see her emotional when her secretary receives the news of her son’s death. This is how things are: a close death, with a name and surname, with a face and eyes, moves us to tears, while thousands and thousands of anonymous deaths are nothing more than an abstraction, a number loaded with zeros that is just like us .
Psychologists consider psychopaths to be those who lack empathy for the suffering of others, have an exaggerated view of their own worth, and are prone to manipulating others, often through lying. One in every hundred individuals suffers from this kind of psychopathy, but this percentage is much higher in the circles of economic and political power, where the ability to convince, take risks, make difficult decisions, etc. is precisely valued.
If in the countries of today’s Europe, so comfortable, we cannot rule out that our rulers are psychopaths, in the areas permanently settled in conflict we could almost take it for granted.
Golda Meir ended up signing peace with her Egyptian counterpart, Anwar al-Sadat. In some documentary images that appear at the end of the film Golda, the two are seen together, relaxed, exchanging jokes that are not very funny, laughing loudly in front of the television cameras. It didn’t take long for Anwar al-Sadat, who started that war, to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The greater the suffering caused by a statesman, the greater seems to be the reward to which subsequent exchanges of flattery make him deserving. Henry Kissinger, with foreign policy decisions that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, had been given the same award five years earlier.