on en revient toujours là

Il faut bien sûr en revenir à Ali Bhutto (et même plus loin : jusqu’à Spurius Cassius ! vous savez ce qu’on lui a fait à Spurius Cassius ?)

“Her father was probably the most popular politician in Pakistan, pledging massive social reforms. - Comme Robert Kennedy ! et, comme Robert Kennedy, il a été éliminé; ou comme Tiberius Gracchus (et Caius Gracchus) toujours la même histoire – il faut toujours en revenir à Marx je regrette ! - ou à La Fontaine si vous préférez, la lucidité quoi.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had been elected in the 1970 elections, had won a large majority in the country that we now know as Pakistan and had been elected on a very radical platform. He came to power.He implemented some of his reforms, not all, became extremely autocratic, clashed with the United States on a number of issues, including Pakistan’s right to have nuclear weapons. Henry Kissinger warned him in private that if you do not desist on the nuclear issue, we will make a terrible example out of you. That’s what Bhutto wrote from his death cell. The United States organized a military coup d’etat. General Zia-ul-Haq took power in 1977, organized a trial against Bhutto, charging him with an absurd charge of murdering someone. The judges were pressured, and they found him guilty, and Bhutto was hanged in April 1979. It could not have happened without US support and approval, because Zia was a nobody, and Washington clearly green-lighted the murder. And Bhutto, from his death cell, wrote a very moving document called “If I Am Assassinated,” in which he said there are two hegemonies—these are his words. He said, “There are two hegemonies that dominate our country. One is an internal hegemony, and the other is an external hegemony. And unless we challenge the external hegemony, we will never be able to deal with the internal one,” meaning Washington is the external hegemony and the army is the internal one.”