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Brzezinski: Obama ‘Understands the World Better Than Any Other Politician’
PJ Tatler ^ | February 27, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 02/27/2012 3:59:03 PM PST by lbryce

President Obama got high praise from Jimmy Carter former national security adviser on his comprehension of foreign policy.

Still, Zbigniew Brzezinski had some words of caution for the current commander in chief about his meeting next week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying Obama let himself be “humiliated” last time Bibi visited.

“Prior to the elections, they’ll be tempted to strike,” Brzezinski said of Israeli action toward Iran’s nuclear program on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” Sunday. “And this is why I think the president, when he talks on to Netanyahu on March 5th, might take into account the fact that, first of all, he was humiliated the last time Netanyahu was around, and the president of the United States shouldn’t be so humiliated, and that he represents the American national interests.”

Zakaria noted that Brzezinski has given Obama sort of a “mixed grade” through his tenure.

“My view, however, is the following: one, he really understands the world better than any other politician,” Brzezinski said. “And I wouldn’t even waste time comparing him to what we hear from the Republican candidates for presidency, because that’s so unrealistic and so primitive that it’s embarrassing.”

He questioned whether Obama has the self-confidence to use that grand understanding well, saying of the Mideast peace process, “When push came to shove, he didn’t try.”

But Brzezinski said he would support Obama’s re-election “without question” this year.

“I mean, look at those Republican debates. I must say I am literally — I literally feel embarrassed as an American when I see those people orate,” he said. “One of them sounds like a medieval Savonarola. Another one is trying to explain why he has some of his wealth located in the Cayman Islands. And someone else would go back to 1780. And then there is someone who is using his credentials as a repudiated speaker of the Congress to be president. I mean, this is just embarrassing.”


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brzezinski; carter; carterlegacy; foreignpolicy; jimmycarter; nationalsecurity; netanyahu; nucleariran; obama; obamunism
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To: lbryce

Barry doesn’t understand that we don’t want to be like the rest of the world and he is trying to take us there!


21 posted on 02/27/2012 4:15:41 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: lbryce

Right - this about a guy whose sophistication in foreign policy takes the level of giving the Russkies a “reset button”, insulting Sarkozy at the birth of a child, and embarrassing the Brits with a stupid CD (figuratively) taped to the bottom of their bust of Churchill.

Sorry, but his knowledge of world affairs is right there with his tire-pressure gauge / gasoline from algae knowledge of energy policy.

But if being bowed to by a poser who thinks he’s God’s gift to humanity is your cup of tea, Obama is tough to beat.


22 posted on 02/27/2012 4:16:03 PM PST by Stosh
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To: lbryce

That comment is as pathetic as it is insulting. What a total jerk. The middle east is as big a mess as it is today because of the failed policies of the Carter administration, which this jerk advised. How can a nation that gave us Lech Walesa also give us this jerk?


23 posted on 02/27/2012 4:16:03 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: lbryce

And with these remarks, we understand Brzezinski well enough to know he is a socialist hack who is so full of himself it comes out his nose.


24 posted on 02/27/2012 4:17:17 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: lbryce
You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

Strange that we still don't know if Obama took a class with Brzezinski at Columbia.

25 posted on 02/27/2012 4:18:58 PM PST by x
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To: lbryce

He’s probably still pissed that Poland didn’t join the anti-Comintern Pact


26 posted on 02/27/2012 4:20:35 PM PST by hecht (Murray use your coaster)
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To: freedomrings69

No doubt this man’s career was a failure but his remarks about Israel give us a good idea on Obama’s evolving policy. The Democrats have concluded that a war with Iran is the most significant threat to Obama’s reelection chances. If it goes badly, (significant causalities, loss of ships or failure to achieve strategic goals), Obama will lose. Therefore Obama has been leaking information that Iran really has not decided to build nuclear weapons and behind the scenes is doing all they can to restrain Israel. Obama wants no part of a shooting war. The big question is will Bibi accept restraint?


27 posted on 02/27/2012 4:20:45 PM PST by allendale
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To: freedomrings69

Don’t forget that idiot giving up the Panama Canal.


28 posted on 02/27/2012 4:21:35 PM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: lbryce
Brzezinski: Under whose guidance the US lost five allies to communism or worse, gave away the Panama Canal, who tried to arm the Mujahadeen of Afghanistan hoping that it would convince the Russians to send more forces there, and finally advised Carter to order a hastily prepared hostage rescue mission to Iran, then to go inert after it blew up.

And now, in lecture circuit retirement, he tries to join every SPECTRE-like organization of internationalist conspiricists, supervillains, Illuminati, etc., which are populated by the same small group of egotistical failures, like Henry Kissinger.

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29 posted on 02/27/2012 4:22:54 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Venturer
WTF is this guy smoking?

*******

Peanut hay...??
justa guess---

Zhhhhbiiggg needs to take the same advice ev1 keeps giving his former boss....

To wit: SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE!

30 posted on 02/27/2012 4:25:37 PM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

He joins his daughter in the Brain Dead Club


31 posted on 02/27/2012 4:27:46 PM PST by Captain7seas (FIRE JANE LUBCHENCO FROM NOAA)
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To: dennisw

Don’t forget this imbecile gave away the Panama Canal too.


32 posted on 02/27/2012 4:28:52 PM PST by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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To: lbryce

A leftist praising a Marxist........priceless.


33 posted on 02/27/2012 4:32:23 PM PST by TPOOH (I wish I could have been Jerry Reed.)
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To: lbryce
May all due respect earned by him live on long after he is gone.

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34 posted on 02/27/2012 4:42:28 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: lbryce

I hope this doesn’t sound like a Polish joke or a put down of all things Polish, but the older he gets, it seems Zbig’s native Polish anti-Semitism becomes apparent.


35 posted on 02/27/2012 4:49:00 PM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: EGPWS

Only in Brezinski’s twisted world view was the one humiliated by Netanyahu. I think Netanyahu and most of Israel felt humiliated after the childish crap obama served up.


36 posted on 02/27/2012 4:49:25 PM PST by 1malumprohibitum
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To: lbryce

Zbig’s approval is a kiss of death.


37 posted on 02/27/2012 4:49:37 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
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To: EGPWS

Only in Brezinski’s twisted world view was the one humiliated by Netanyahu. I think Netanyahu and most of Israel felt humiliated after the childish crap obama served up.


38 posted on 02/27/2012 4:49:49 PM PST by 1malumprohibitum
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To: NativeNewYorker

She looks utterly pained whenever someone criticizes Obama. Her brother was also recently appointed as the ambassador to Sweden, so any criticizing is NOT going to happen.


39 posted on 02/27/2012 4:58:01 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: lbryce

FUZBIG


40 posted on 02/27/2012 5:10:29 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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