Henry Kissinger: The man who thinks he's God

[Lars77]

To his detractors, the notion of Henry Kissinger being summoned by Sepp Blatter to help cleanse the rotten house of Fifa is akin to making the Empress Messalina a United Nations special envoy for chastity.

World football's governing body, by all accounts, needs a large dose of two things: humility and openness. But can those qualities be fostered, one may ask, by one of the mightiest egos in the history of diplomacy, whose preferred modus operandi was complete, and not infrequently deceitful, secrecy?

But just possibly the detractors will be proved wrong. There are two Henry Kissingers. There is the Kissinger the world knows best: the historian and geostrategist, the master of realpolitik for whom the end always justifies the means. Then there is Kissinger, the lifelong devotee of Fussball – the boy who stood on the terraces watching the team from his Bavarian hometown of Fürth win cups and championships in the Twenties and Thirties.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/henry-kissinger-the-man-who-thinks-hes-god-2292846.html

[Canuckistanian]

1. People don't hire Kissinger for advice on accountability and transparency

They want to know how to HIDE corruption and put a happy face on their organization.

Europeans aren't fooled THAT easily.