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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I’m following in this guys footsteps!
Sympathies to his family and friends.
He was one of Carter’s better ones, which isn’t a very high standard.
Yup, she was a babe.
I’m still not convinced that Abe Vigoda has left us.
111 year old WWII Vet, Richard Overton, was recently hospitalized but is listed as good condition....
http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/255850316-story
God bless and keep him.
She and Errol Flynn...
No it was the Russians.
Mika I know you read here.Sorry about your Dad.Hard lose.((((Hugs)))
That's where Cheney got his heart transplant. While that was happening, they were killing my mother. It's a roll of the dice on the doctors you get.
Good for Olivia.
She played Melanie in Gone With The Wind too.
And she described the Vietnamese as “tawdry little s***s.”
Maybe that was Kissenger ...
Why? The Soviet Union was a greater threat to world stability in the 60s and 70s (fomenting revolutions and bankrolling international terror, plus having ICBMs and a blue-water navy with nuke boats) than al-Qaeda or ISIS could ever hope to be. They had to be stopped, and on the geopolitical front it was clear that Afghanistan was their “bridge too far”.
Besides which, there were two dominant factions among the Afghan Mujahideen...we abandoned support of the non-radical faction after they’d served their anti-Soviet purpose, and in the civil war that followed, the Iranian-backed faction won.
invented the mujahadeen (pre al qaeda)
NWOld
ZBig...
Gone With the Wind...Too.
Reagan was right. Though, lots of us young conservatives thought he was a sellout on a number of issues that no one cares to remember.
Zbig was like Max Boot. A Pole with a pathological hatred for Russia. That's understandable. Thank God he didn't get a chance to start WWIII. I think he was wiser than the Russiaphobes of today. I fear them and you should too.
Brzezinski was a total loser as a foreign policy specialist. I once had the pleasure, as a reporter, to question him at a press conference. His lack of an answer and a rebuttal rebuke by “The Prince of Darkness” Richard Perl ended up on the front page of the Washington Times.
My God that was sweet. Bz was a total ignoramus, which seems to run in the family and includes sdaughter Mikaand her bed buddy Morning Joe Scarborough, another “heavyweight intellectual” over there on MSNBC.
By the way, Kissinger was not genius either. He just had better PR. In fact, the Harvard professor who brought him to Washington after reading K’s famous work on nuclear strategy, later told us that it was the biggest regret of his life.
Amen to that brother.
Your friend was right on the money. Kissinger is the devil incarnate.
Too bad he didn’t write an OPUS first!
Sara Barracuda: Not champagne. Make it Manischewitz Concord Grape Wine, served cold, not stirred. Tastes good and will taste even better when you drink it celebrating the earth-polluting demise of Bz.
L’Chaim!
The question is “How far behind him are you?”
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