[Tolik]

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His website: http://victorhanson.com/     NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[MNJohnnie]

Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national-security adviser to President Carter,

Gee Zbig if YOU and Peanut Boy had done your JOBS and nipped this in the bud THEN when it STARTED, we would not have this mess today. Don't you and peanut head DARE criticize better men cleaning up YOUR mess.

[bkepley]

Relax, he's a partisan still hoping for a position and everyone knows it. What's he going to do, turn Republican?

[Obadiah]

I honestly believe that because of the whole Harriet Miers deal that the liberals and their media handmaidens, absolutely sense blood in the water with respect to the Bush presidency. I'm sure that lurkers at this site get a certain sense. This upsets me no end. I don't mind a good family argument, but it must not derail the serious work that is being done and still needs to be done. We cannot let the LATimes, the media, the Carter retreads, and others attempt to reestablish a national malaise.

[traderrob6]

It's "The Big News" with Zbigniew Brzezinski.

[FreedomPoster]

Aside from the unintended irony that the classical historian Arnold Toynbee himself was not always “adroit,” but wrong in most of his determinist conclusions, and that such criticism comes from a high official of an administration that witnessed on its watch the Iranian-hostage debacle, the disastrous rescue mission, the tragicomic odyssey of the terminally ill shah, the first and last Western Olympic boycott, oil hikes even higher in real dollars than the present spikes, Communist infiltration into Central America, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Cambodian holocaust, a gloomy acceptance that perpetual parity with the Soviet Union was the hope of the day, the realism that cemented our ties with corrupt autocracies in the Middle East (Orwellian sales of F-15 warplanes to the Saudis minus their extras), and the hard-to-achieve simultaneous high unemployment, high inflation, and high interest rates, Mr. Brzezinski is at least a valuable barometer of the current pessimism over events such as September 11.

That's one heckuva sentence, and a great summary of the Carter era.

[RedEyeJack]

There is nothing in Iraq that even approximates a serious military challenge. It is psychological warfare being waged against the will of the American people to stay the course and do what has to be done to fulfill the "white man's burden".

If the terrorists start to mount battalion, company, or even platoon sized attacks successfully against U.S. forces in Iraq then we will be facing a real threat. The loss of American life is a price we must face but we know how to defeat this type of foe if... we can sustain ourselves on the "home front" in the face of the weak willed and political opportunists.

[JamesP81]

Another home run by VDH

[hershey]

VDH tells it like it is.

[dirtboy]

And as for Mr. Brzezinski’s indictment — most of us still would prefer the United States of 2005 to the chaotic America of 1977-80 under an administration that did little to confront the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, which began in earnest on its watch with the real debacle in Tehran.

Hey, Brzezinski - how does it feel to be VDH's bitch? And get slapped?

[JamesP81]

VDH is something of a hero of mine. I would like to be a column writer in the same way he is, eventually. I read him as much as I can find time to. The man is a genius. His clear minded thinking is something we badly need in the age of newthink.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

And as for Mr. Brzezinski’s indictment — most of us still would prefer the United States of 2005 to the chaotic America of 1977-80 under an administration that did little to confront the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, which began in earnest on its watch with the real debacle in Tehran.

Hell yeah.

[Billthedrill]

Geopolitics is one of those bodies of theory in which being categorically wrong in nearly every particular does not impede one's celebrity one bit. Brzezinski is a perfect example; so, IMHO, is Paul Kennedy. And then there was Karl Marx...

It works fine in that field, I guess, but I sure wouldn't trust an engineer whose last three bridges fell down.

[metesky]

Bump for the weekend crowd.

[goldstategop]

Things are looking better every day and freedom is becoming more secure - to the intense frustration of the Left, the jihadists and other assorted enemies of America.

(Denny Crane: "I like nature. Don't talk to me about the environment".)

[kabar]

VDH at his very best.