From the pen of Ex-PH2;
3-20-09 –News story on Wednesday that the military, esp. the Navy, is reducing re-ups in what could be called critical rates, like aviation mechanic (AM), because they are “overstaffed”. Why would that be done when it’s unclear (at least to me) whether or not we still face an external threat? Did Gates (SECDEF) agree to this? Did he come up with the idea? He was GWB’s SECDEF. Zbigniew Brzezinski was Obama’s foreign policy advisor when BO was a senator and now he’s on the WH staff in the same position. And he’s the one who talked jimmy carter into opposing the USSR’s incursion into Afghanistan and supporting the Taliban in 1979, and now, 30 years later, the USSR is gone and the Taliban is trying to take over the minds of all muslims. In Jan.1998, Brzezinski said, in an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur “What is more important to the history of the world? The end of the Soviet empire or the Taliban? The end of Soviet control of eastern Europe and a free Europe, or a few disgruntled muslims?” And I’ll just bet he’s “advising” Obama to reduce the military right now. What the hell is that arrogant ass up to?
That’s an old journal entry I made right around the time the stock market was wobbling, on the verge of a crash. Make a note of that name – Brzezinski – because that Polish gasbag’s name has figured in a lot of stuff that has done more harm than good to the USofA.
1966 – 1968 – Zbigniew Brzezinski is in the White House as a counselor to Lyndon Johnson’s administration. This is the period during which the Vietnam War reached its peak, culminating in the Tet Offensive, which started at 2AM on January 30, 1968. Giap’s VC volunteers had been ferrying supplies and equipment, broken down and carried on their backs if need be, for months along the Ho Chi Minh trail which ran south from Hanoi through Laos and through tunnels in Vietnam, to set up outside every military base, city and many, many villes in South Vietnam, without being detected. That was the same year that LBJ realized he’d bitten off more than he could chew when the hippies protested at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and Mayor (John) Daley gave the order ‘shoot to kill’ to the police. Shortly thereafter, Johnson went on national TV and said “I will not seek, nor will I accept the nomination as your President.”
1969 – 1974 – Nixon won the fall election because he promised to end the war in Vietnam. His National Security advisor was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger’s assistant was Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg went over the fence. There was a raid on Ellsberg’s shrink’s office to prove his incompetence, but the files about him didn’t have his name on them. Clever shrink.
The 1970 Kent State University shooting probably had more impact on Nixon’s presidency than anything else except the Watergate Hotel break-in. But while Nixon wanted the US out of Vietnam in 1971, Kissinger thought it would destabilize the country and blow the war up all over again. It was Kissinger who got the 1973 Paris Peace Accord accomplished, but by this time Nixon was in real trouble over the Watergate break-in and either had to resign or be impeached. Gerald Ford took his place after he resigned, holding that office until the 1976 elections.
1976 – 1980 – Jimmy Carter – not James Earl Carter, mind you, but ‘Jimmy’! – is elected, and who goes right back into the White House? None other than Zbigniew Brzezinski. His new title was National Security Advisor, from 1977 to 1981. Note that in 1957, he visited Poland for the first time since he left as a child, and his visit reaffirmed his judgment that splits within the Eastern bloc were profound. He developed his ideas he called “peaceful engagement.” (Source: Wiki) Make a note of that phrase “peaceful engagement”. It’s important.
In 1979, Carter authorized aid to the mujaheddin, based on Brzezinski’s advice, quoted as follows:
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujaheddin began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention [emphasis added].
When he was asked by the reporter for Le Journal Observateur for this article (at previous link) if he had considered the global threat of Islam, his response was as follows:
Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B : What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q : “Some agitated Moslems”? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today (1998).
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West has a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid: There isn’t a global Islam.
Brzezinski persuaded Carter to have the CIA recruit and support al Qaeda under a young bin Laden, as well as the Taliban, to oppose the Soviet Army in Afghanistan. If you remember the events during the Gulf War, the Afghan government asked the US to help them get the Taliban out of Afghanistan, which we did. After we left, they went right back in. This was all broadcast on C-SPAN in 1990.
That interview was part of a paper by David Gibbs (Arizona State) The pdf of the full article by Gibbs is here:
It is long and involved, but it is interesting enough. And it clearly shows that Brzezinski’s interest was two-fold: break up the USSR, and establish the USA as the head of a world empire.
1992 – Brzezinski criticized the Clinton administration’s approach to the war in the Balkans after the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you will recall, Clinton viewed it as a law enforcement matter.
In 1997, Brzezinski publishes “The Grand Chessboard”, his view of how the USA can become the dominant entity in his vision of a world empire.
Unfortunately, he has never understood that empires are for emperors, and that the United States is a democratic republic without dynastic succession. I don’t think he liked that part.
2006 – 2008 – Barack Obama runs for a seat in the US Senate and wins as the freshman Senator from Illinois. Brzezinski goes right into Obama’s office as his foreign policy advisor. Before the dust has even settled, Obama is out the door on the presidential campaign trail, so fast that papers flew up in his wake. He gets the nomination, and guess what? He wins.
And who is his Foreign Policy advisor? Well, not Jimmy Carter, that’s for darn sure.
Obama begins ‘drawing down’ the military in the Middle East, and is now (2016) in the process of demilitarizing the US military, and for all I know, the influence behind this may have been Brzezinski’s from the start. Remember what I said about ‘peaceful engagement’? Between 2009 and now, the US military has become a shadow of itself, with unnecessary and very stupid changes inflicted on it by people who despise it and what it stands for.
In 2012, Brzezinski gives up on America becoming an empire:
So you see, there is no conspiracy involved here. There is only a decades-long history of one person, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish-American, interfering with and meddling in the functions of a sovereign government because he was able to find people with inflated and/or weak egos (LBJ, Carter, Obama) who were easily manipulated by him into doing stupid things that have cost this country and its people their peace of mind, financial stability, and political sanity.
What we face now is worse than anything else we have ever faced, including the second invasion by the British in the early 19th century. And all because of Brzezinski’s grandiose egomania and his dismissive attitude toward a ‘few disgruntled muslims’.
You can blame him for everything that is wrong right now.
