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"The debacle occurred when Zbigniew and his "leader" were in the White House."

- I seem to recall that Zbigniew was loved by the MSM during his Carter days because they always painted him as a "hard liner" against communism, especially that practiced at the time in his native Poland. Solidarity was in the process of leading the revolt in that country which eventually saw the collapse of one party rule.
Zbigniew was on all the talk shows, spouting his global strategic views on various topics in which he seemed to be in some sort of undeclared competition with Henry Kissenger on who had the more brilliant analysis on the cause and effect of world events.
However, Zbigniew has never shaken the mistaken vanity that he has some sort of claim to a superior insight into current affairs and, as he has aged, his vanity has grown as has his air of being out of touch with reality.
At this point he gives one the impression that all he knows of global politics is what he has read in the newspapers. When it comes to perceptive insights, there is no there, there.