Commentary: How Bangladesh’s success has proved Henry Kissinger wrong

Bangladesh celebrated the 51st anniversary of its war of independence from Pakistan on March 26. The country was dismissed as a ”bottomless basket,” or an endless charity case, by future Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and the United States had supported the military dictators who had jailed elected representatives and started a war of terror to intimidate the population into silence and submission.

This is a perfect case of the contradiction between what the U.S.