Posted on 05/26/2017 7:50:23 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.
His death, at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, was announced on Friday by his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of the MSNBC program “Morning Joe.”
Like his predecessor Henry A. Kissinger, Mr. Brzezinski was a foreign-born scholar (he in Poland, Mr. Kissinger in Germany) with considerable influence in global affairs, both before and long after his official tour of duty in the White House. In essays, interviews and television appearances over the decades, he cast a sharp eye on six successive administrations, including that of Donald J. Trump, whose election he did not support and whose foreign policy, he found, lacked coherence.
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RIP...
It looks like he’s wearing an upside-down doggie dish as a hat. Once seen, cannot be unseen.
breaking news?
RIP
Hank will be 94 tomorrow.
“breaking news?”
Yeah, evidently, people don’t die on a daily basis.
There is a famous U-Boat captain from WW2 still alive. 104 years young.
Interesting. Billy will be 99 in November.
Good riddance to bad garbage. No tears.
There is a WWII vet in Austin that just turned 111.
Smokes cigars and drinks hard liquor every day.
I’m a history nut. Out of curiosity, which one?
Maybe, or maybe it's zbigniews this evening.
(The last time I will ever be able to make that bad pun.)
Well done, FReeper.
Well done.
Mika’s Jew hating daddy is dead..I will pop open some champagne now
I don't think he cared all that much for the Americans, either.
***ZIP!!***
Olivia de Havilland is still alive and will turn 101 on July 1st.
While I did not wish his death...I’m glad he is gone.
I just noticed that Kissinger is three days older than my Dad would have been. My Dad was born on traditional Memorial Day, May 30, 1923.
Yeah, I’m not sure that being the most conservative war hawk in the Carter administration is necessarily a good thing.
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