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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
One of the most respected foreign policy voices in Democratic circles expressed "serious reservations" with components of a U.S. troop escalation in Afghanistan during an interview on Tuesday. Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was an early skeptic about increasing troops in Afghanistan, said he was not necessarily opposed to Obama's decision to send an...
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Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Former National Security Advisor and founding member of the Trilateral Commission Zbigniew Brzezinski tacitly warned a Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that an attack on Iran could be launched following a staged provocation in Iraq or a false flag terror attack within the U.S. Brzezinski alluded to the potential for the Bush administration to manufacture a false flag...
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PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski cautions that it would be hypocritical and counterproductive for America to stress that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government be purged of corruption. “Who are we to seriously be preaching [such] a crusade? We have a financial sector that is voraciously greedy and exploitative, to put it mildly. We have a Congress [...]...
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REAL ART (and politics and culture) (Free subscription) | yesterday
... one in Afghanistan. While I don't think everything President Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski says about global conflict is worth even listening to, he's got some good observations about President Peace-Prize's plans for the mountainous "nation" that neither the British nor the Soviets could conquer: Brzezinski also cautioned that it would be...
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
I used to respect David Ignatius and enjoy his columns. I enjoyed his narration between Bret Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski in " America and the World ." Then he took a few helicopter rides with Gen. Petraeus and I think they replaced him with a pod person. That's the only rationale I can think of with his recent comments about President Obama's speech about an Afghanistan...
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
By Sam SteinOne of the most respected foreign policy voices in Democratic circles expressed "serious reservations" with components of a U.S. troop escalation in Afghanistan during an interview on Tuesday.Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was an early skeptic about increasing troops in Afghanistan, said he was not necessarily opposed to Obama's decision...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... Union and its Afghan allies collapsed. In 1979, President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski had consciously lured the Soviets into invading Afghanistan by arming Islamist mujahedin fighting a pro-Soviet revolutionary government. The mujahedin (aided at the same time by Osama Bin Laden) defeated the Soviet superpower after only ten years. Retaliation was...
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SocraticGadfly (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Juan Cole makes a good case President Obama is misreading any analogies with Iraq and the surge there, and that most such analogies only exist in the minds of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment anyway. Dan Froomkin has much more on this , including, in essence, a flip-flip mentality by Obama. Or, self-petard-hoisting, perhaps we should say. Zbigniew Brzezinski has some concerns...
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Blog on the Run: Reloaded (Free subscription) | yesterday
... he is doing God’s work and has been for a long time. (h/t: Janice) Reality check: Who are we, Zbigniew Brzezinski asks , to criticize Afghanistan about government corruption? “Americans, of course, hate hypocrisy,” the LA Times’ Andrew Malcolm observes , “by everyone else.” Elizabeth Warren for president: “America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families...
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e-Patients.net (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America’s Ability To Make Sound Healthcare Decisions with apologies to Zbigniew Brzezinski In his original article about the war on terror Brzezinsky argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a culture of fear deliberately because it “obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for [...]
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009china confidential The Case for an Internal Strike on IranBy Arnis R. PutrenieksWhat if the recent news coverage regarding a proposed military strike—Israeli submarines traversing the Suez Canal, Israeli war games held in the Mediterranean at the same dimensional scale of an airstrike against Iran, delivery of bunker-buster bombs by the U.S. to Israel, threats/suggestions...
