Ex-Advisers Offer Revised Iraq Plans {Zbigniew Brzezinski}

AP via SFGate ^ | 2/1/7 | BARRY SCHWEID

[SmithL]

President Carter's national security adviser said Thursday the Iraq war was likely to lead to "a head-on conflict" with Iran and other parts of the Muslim world.

Zbigniew Brzezinski also told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Bush administration policy was driven by "imperial hubris" and has proved to be a disaster on historic, strategic and moral grounds.

"If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted bloody involvement in Iraq, and I emphasize what I am about to say, the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large," Brzezinski said.

Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush, said a buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq "might be a positive blip" if it helped stabilize Baghdad. But he said it would not lead to fundamental changes in the situation.

"It is a tactic, not a strategy," he said.

Brzezinski set out as a plausible scenario for military collision: Iraq fails to meet benchmarks set by the U.S., followed by accusations that Iran is responsible for the failure and then a terrorist act or some provocation blamed on Iran. This scenario, he said, would play out with a defensive U.S. military action against Iran.

That, Brzezinski said, would plunge the United States into a quagmire that eventually would range across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Proposing a massive shift in policy, Brzezinski said the U.S. should announce with no ambiguity its determination to leave Iraq "in a reasonably short period of time."

[SmithL]

The Carter Administration is STILL enabling terrorism.

[dirtboy]

President Carter's national security adviser said Thursday the Iraq war was likely to lead to "a head-on conflict" with Iran and other parts of the Muslim world.

This from a guy too chicken to take on Iran when it should have been taken on.

[romanesq]

Brezinski fails to forecast the outcome for his vision. It doesn't sound very good for any stability whatsoever.

It sounds like, step back and let the chaos ensue.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

President Carter's national security adviser...

I stopped reading right there.

[Williams]

Glad Brzezinski is writing scenarios by which the USA fighting Iran is America's fault. I'm reminded of a Lex Luther quote from Superman II: "All this accumulated brainpower and these people can't figure out how to use a doorknob."

Do any of them EVER acknowledge that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, our sworn enemy, a nuclear threat, and killer of our troops - and that changing those facts should be a key objective?

Instead, the democrats are hell bent on PROTECTING Syria and Iran.

[crazyhorse691]

President Carter's national security adviser

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Enough said.

[himno hero]

perfect....

just do the opposite of his recommendations

[Wuli]

"likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large"

Brezinksi does not admit:

(1) that this "head-on conflict" between the U.S. and "much of the world of Islam" was in fact announced by many leaders in "much of the world of Islam" many years ago, even prior to Osama bin Laden's formal declarations of it,

and

(2) that the "head on conflict" between the U.S. and Iran was and remains a foundational principle of the regime in Tehran from its inception,

and therefore, he refuses to further acknowledge:

(3) that our activity in Iraq is in fact a delayed response to pre-existent "conflicts" declared against us - long preceding our activity in Iraq, and

(4) thus, our activity in Iraq is not a cause of either the "Muslim world's" or Iran's declared conflicts against us.

Which only further demonstrates why we are blessed that the Carter-Brezinski idiots are not in the White House today.

[D-fendr]

If we'd wanted Carter's advisor, we wouldn't have shown Jimmy the door in humilating defeat.

And.. If we need advice on how to create more Iran's we can always ask him.

[M. Espinola]

"The Carter Administration is STILL enabling terrorism."

Totally correct!

Brzezinski has a lot of nerve showing his face in public considering it was he which lead the Carter drive to allow Shi'ite fanatics to seize control of the Iranian government from the Shah. Since 1979 Iran's massive oil profits have been misused to bankrolled global jihad, including the murder of U.S. troops and Israelis.

Now this generation is stuck undoing the Islamic geostrategic nightmare that Brzezinski is absolutely & directly responsible for creating in the first place.

[parisa]

carter's NSA!!!

It's amazing. carter and his henchmen who undermined and destroyed the pro US, anti-islamist, moderate, Iranian government and ushered in the khomeinist murdering era, are at it again protecting the turbanhead mafioso-fascist thugs!!!

Absolutely amazing!!!

[Phlap]

If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted bloody involvement in Iraq, and I emphasize what I am about to say, the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large," Brzezinski said.

If? We are in it already Bozo. And when you and the rest of the pansies have your way we will lose. Thank God for George W. Bush.