[BlackJack]

Hmmm

[Pontiac]

B: 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.

To me this looks like the Dimmycrats are trying to take credit for the end of Soviet Communism. Just another attack on Reagan’s legacy.

[swilhelm73]

So wait, does this mean the next time so clueless leftie claims the US created Osama in Afghanistan that we can ask them to take it up with their favorite Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter?

For the record Iwould say the odds of this "interview" being true are remote. Brzezinski just does not sound like this at all.

[BlackVeil]

It is hmmmm stuff, isn't it?

There have been a number of rumours about how the Soviets were suckered into invading Afghanistan.

That is one reason why - when wondering about who was behind the events of Sept 11 (for I have always believed that the operation had the support of a state, rather than just a remote camp in the mountains) - I never leave Russia out of my speculations. I used to think Iraq might have been behind Sept 11, but I don't think so any more, as even George Bush says so. But I wonder about Russia, and also Pakistan, Iran (I hope not), even China.

[adam_az]

In other words -

It wasn't Reagan that created bin Ladin...

it was CARTER!!!

(to put to rest a well worn leftist angle)

[fso301]

Link anyone?

[gaspar]

The headline contradicts the statement that "We didn't push the Russians to intervene...." I wish someone would ask Brzezinski and Gates why, according to US embassy personnel, there was no CIA presence in Kabul at the time of the Russian invasion in December 1979. Wouldn't it stand to reason that if you were going to play games in Afghanistan you would have someone there to play a hand?

[Aquinasfan]

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. 

Hmmm... And on the other hand the perimeter of the Mohammedan world is marked by wars with non-Mohammedans.