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Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89
NY Times ^ | 5/26/2017 | DANIEL LEWIS

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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To: Timpanagos1

I’m following in this guys footsteps!


61 posted on 05/26/2017 8:53:37 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: carriage_hill

Sympathies to his family and friends.

He was one of Carter’s better ones, which isn’t a very high standard.


62 posted on 05/26/2017 8:54:59 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yup, she was a babe.


63 posted on 05/26/2017 8:57:45 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: chajin

I’m still not convinced that Abe Vigoda has left us.


64 posted on 05/26/2017 9:00:16 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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To: Timpanagos1

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.


65 posted on 05/26/2017 9:02:36 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

She and Errol Flynn...


66 posted on 05/26/2017 9:03:39 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: McGruff

No it was the Russians.


67 posted on 05/26/2017 9:04:58 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: carriage_hill

Mika I know you read here.Sorry about your Dad.Hard lose.((((Hugs)))


68 posted on 05/26/2017 9:06:54 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Riley
I’ve spent an aggregate total of weeks in Fairfax iNova, and it’s the best hospital there is.

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.

69 posted on 05/26/2017 9:09:17 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: xp38

Good for Olivia.


70 posted on 05/26/2017 9:10:25 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

She played Melanie in Gone With The Wind too.
And she described the Vietnamese as “tawdry little s***s.”

Maybe that was Kissenger ...


71 posted on 05/26/2017 9:22:00 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: MAGAthon

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.


72 posted on 05/26/2017 9:25:33 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: carriage_hill

invented the mujahadeen (pre al qaeda)

NWOld


73 posted on 05/26/2017 9:28:37 PM PDT by DEEP_e
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To: tumblindice

ZBig...
Gone With the Wind...Too.


74 posted on 05/26/2017 9:28:44 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: carriage_hill
Post Afghanistan invasion, the Carter administration was more bellicose to the Soviets than Reagan ever was. That doesn't fit the talk radio narrative, so we forget history.

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.

75 posted on 05/26/2017 9:29:36 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: carriage_hill

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.


76 posted on 05/26/2017 9:32:22 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Rebelbase
Back in the early 80’s I knew a guy who was convinced Kissenger was the Antichrist.

Your friend was right on the money. Kissinger is the devil incarnate.

77 posted on 05/26/2017 9:32:44 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Too bad he didn’t write an OPUS first!


78 posted on 05/26/2017 9:34:21 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

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!


79 posted on 05/26/2017 9:34:22 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: wjcsux

The question is “How far behind him are you?”


80 posted on 05/26/2017 9:37:53 PM PDT by Balata
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