Posted on 10/06/2015 4:51:52 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The United States should threaten to retaliate if Russia does not stop attacking U.S. assets in Syria, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in a Financial Times op-ed published Sunday, urging "strategic boldness," with American credibility in the Middle East and the region itself at stake.
Moscow's apparent decision to strike non-Islamic State targets and those of Syrian rebels backed by the Central Intelligence Agency "at best" reflects "Russian military incompetence," and worst, "evidence of a dangerous desire to highlight American political impotence," wrote Brzezinski, the national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter and a strong supporter of current President Barack Obama.
And if Russia continues to pursue non-ISIL targets, the U.S. should retaliate, he added.
"In these rapidly unfolding circumstances the U.S. has only one real option if it is to protect its wider stakes in the region: to convey to Moscow the demand that it cease and desist from military actions that directly affect American assets," he said.
"The Russian naval and air presences in Syria are vulnerable, isolated geographically from their homeland," Brzezinski noted. "They could be 'disarmed' if they persist in provoking the US."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Well, we had to deal with the KGB training insurgents in Iraq such as showing how to penetrate armored Humvees by clipping a concave copper plate onto the top of an artillery shell. Now the CIA can deliver payback. Turnabout is fair play....
A: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Q: What do you get when you spill the scrabble bag?
Will Obunga create a Gulf of Tonkin incident in order to attack the Russians? I wouldn’t put it past him.
Zbiggie wants Obama to tell DeBlasio to tow all the Russian cars at the UN for unpaid parking tix....now THAT will really fix ‘em..
put Brzezinski on point.... charge you mf ....
putin asked for obama to cooperate to get rid of isis and the traitor said no...
now putin is coordinating iwth the kurds, the pershmega, and any and all fighting isis including israel...
libtard advisors had their change and blew it...
i think all along obama has been supporting the caliphate concept and said he woudl support muzzies if push got to shove...
THE TRAITOR SHOUld BE TRIED
Here Daddy, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, bragged he was the creator of the Mujahideen.
The Mujahideen in changed their name to Al-Qaeda under OBL.
That force then became the FSA (Free Syrina Army).
Then once the military figured out the FSA was Al-Qaeda they changed their name into ISIS.
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly 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.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
* There are at least two editions of this magazine; with the perhaps sole exception of the Library of Congress, the version sent to the United States is shorter than the French version, and the Brzezinski interview was not included in the shorter version.
As an aside. Soon after it happened, my wife and I were at Dulles with our young daughter to watch the planes take off. Over the loudspeaker system came this, “Mr. Khomeini, Mr. Ayatollah Khomeini, please meet your kamikazi pilot at the end of the runway for immediate departure.” The people around us smiled but no one said anything.
It took the election of Ronald Reagan to put the fear in the Shah of Iran to release them....Ummm...There was no Shah. Just an Ayatholla, as now.
Really? I'd like to see how that goes.
"Barack the First didn't need an umbrella today, so he sent me here to disarm you. My rules of engagement don't allow me to shoot, and I don't even have ammo or the umbrella, just white gloves, but I do have a strongly-worded letter. Please lay down your weapons, or Barack the First will follow up with a formal protest and possibly even UN censure!"
I was in Iraq for most of the time we were in Iraq and listened to a lot of the MNF-I and USF-I briefings. I do not remember the Russians ever being mentioned. The Iranians were cited many times as providing the EFPs, the Russians weren’t. Do you have a source?
I have no “ASSETS” in that dump.
People that think like this deserve to be nuked when it happens.
I thought he must be over a 100 years old but no he’s only 87.
Former “Shah of Iran” was hiding out in Europe. Try Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a student radical.
Just another government employee hazbeen that thinks he is smarter than a bag of door knobs.
The briefings you heard were Coalition REL.
There were geopolitical factors that had nothing to do with Afghanistan per se but with the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the installment of an anti-Soviet theocratic government seen as much more dangerous than the Shah. Afghanistan potentially was a buffer zone between the USSR and Iran.
For Carter and Brzezinski to comprehend these complex dynamics and manipulate them is unbelievable. Carter had spent three years dismantling the U.S. military. He and Congress did so much damage to the CIA that the effects are still felt in 2015. The way Leonid Brezhnev conned Carter could be a model for Putin's manipulation of Obama.
Brzezinski has tried to peddle this cloak-and-dagger nonsense hoping to revise the sorry history of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. Some left-wing academics have taken it as gospel and written papers but it's still crap.
Link to summary of Soviet achieves on these events:
These people aren’t going to be happy until some body pops a nuke. Then they will act all surprised.
The BuB.
Perhaps Brzezinski has access to some bunkers, and thinks he can survive a nuclear war?
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