Posted on 09/20/2009 12:42:41 AM PDT by American Dream 246
Last year Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to former US president Jimmy Carter, described the Bush administration's policy of maintaining the option of military action against Iran as "counterproductive."
Now Brzezinski, who advises Obama on foreign policy, is calling for the US to shoot down Israeli jets. Brzezinski is known to be anti-Israel. The Weekly Standard Blog reported:
In a little noticed interview with the Daily Beast (presumably little noticed because serious people don't read the Daily Beast), Zbigniew Brzezinski suggests that Barack Obama do more than just refuse to support an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites -- the American president must give the order to shoot down Israeli aircraft as they cross Iraqi airspace:
DB: How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest?
Brzezinski: We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?
DB: What if they fly over anyway?
Brzezinski: Well, we have to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren’t just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a Liberty in reverse. No wonder the Iranian regime is so impressed with Brzezinski.
Obama adviser worries Israel supporters
Ben Smith - Politico.com
Sep 12, 2007 ...
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s intervention into “Israel Lobby” debate
Brzezinski, 79, stepped into the crossfire this summer when he published an essay in the summer issue of the journal Foreign Policy, defending a controversial new book about the power of the “Israel Lobby” in American politics.
The book’s authors, Harvard’s Stephen Walt and the University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer, thanked him for his “incisive defense.”
But the article inserted him into one of the most heated debates in America-Israel politics, a bitter dispute about whether the authors’ claims smacked of bigotry, whether their critics are – as Brzezinski put it — “McCarthyite.”
“It is a tremendous mistake for Barack Obama to select as a foreign policy adviser the one person in public life who has chosen to support a bigoted book,” said Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the most visible critics of the Walt and Mearsheimer volume, titled “The Israel Lobby.” (Dershowitz has contributed to the campaign of Obama’s leading rival, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York.)
Obama has already distanced himself from the book, with his campaign saying in a statement earlier this week that “the idea that supporters of Israel have somehow distorted U.S. foreign policy, or that they are responsible for the debacle in Iraq, is just wrong. And Obama’s positions on Middle East affairs are, like his main rivals’, within the American political mainstream and firmly in favor of Israeli’s aggressive security policy.”
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5783.html
I think flying Israel flags is a great idea. :)
No, you see, he’s just arranging the meeting between the 2 of them.
Jimmuh, Zbig and Vance - the three stooges.
“I’m quite sure such a massive organized event such as that would surely send a message to the Muslim-in-Thief.”
. . . if he was normal. With each passing day, and with each revelation of the unthinkable, and his arrogance and malignant narcissism, it’s obvious what we’re dealing with.
obama aligns with evil.
Is this the same clown that advised Carter on how to handle the Iranian Embassy hostage situation? The guy always
talked with a sock in his mouth so we never knew what the
heck he was talking about.
That's a tricky call. Inaction is always easier than action. It would be VERY easy for a good man (and most of our pilots are good people) and especially against Israeli pilots, to simply let someone get by you instead of shooting them down. I hope that Israel is planning something that can't be stopped by Obama, but I am not convinced that our pilots would do their best when following an evil order.
Zbigniew Brzezinski is still considered a foreign policy genius by the left. Imagine the type of intellect that concludes the threat of a nuclear Iran requires the US to shoot down Israeli jets on a mission to eliminate that threat because such a mission would be counterproductive.
I’ve been predicting it for almost a year.
Our pilots will have to choose between 0bama and God.
I have a feeling that many Jews who voted for Obama are having a lot of second thoughts.
"Brzezinski openly praises Marxism in his book Between Two Ages published in 1970. Incidentally Brzezenski’s father was an ambassador to Russia from Poland during Stalin’s reign"
Doesn't one have to have a brain first ?
“This is so outrageous that I don’t even know what to say in response.
Who the Hell do these bastards think they are...”
In the ongoing saga of “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” we now have more understanding of Mika’s presence on MSNBC and a retro look at Jimmy Carter’s decision making while president.
Zbigie is still smarting from losing a chess match to Menachem Begin.
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