Brzezinski boasted:“The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, ( of Afghanistan)

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I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.”

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Modern international jihad ( ISIS) originated as an instrument of US foreign policy.
The “great menace of our era” was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war against the Soviets.

A 1973 coup in Afghanistan installed a new secular government that, while not fully communist, was Soviet-leaning. That was a capital offense from the perspective of America’s Cold War national security state, at the time headed by Henry Kissinger.

Conveniently for Kissinger, the dirt poor country was sandwiched between two US client states: Pakistan to the east and Iran (then still ruled by the CIA-installed Shah) to the west. Immediately after the coup, the CIA and the clandestine security agencies of Pakistan (ISI) and Iran (SAVAK) began regime change operations in Afghanistan, orchestrating and sponsoring Islamic fundamentalist insurrections and coup attempts.

Due to these efforts, as well as the government’s own oppressiveness, a widespread rebellion broke out in Afghanistan in 1978. In July 1979, US President Jimmy Carter, on the advice of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, officially authorized aid to the puritanical Mujahideen rebels, to be delivered through the CIA’s “Operation Cyclone.” This was on top of the unofficial aid that the CIA had already been funneling to Afghan Islamist insurgents for years through Pakistan and Iran.

In a 1998 interview, Brzezinski openly admitted that he and Carter thus “knowingly increased the probability” that the Soviets would militarily intervene. And indeed Russia did invade in December 1979, beginning the decade-long Soviet-Afghan War.

http://original.antiwar.com/Dan_Sanchez/2015/11/23/they-sow-the-cyclone-we-reap-the-blowback/

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1. Just think, that idiot's daughter is on MSNBC every morning

continuing the family legacy.

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3. He was in roles of influence from Kennedy to Obama presidencies.

But became a republican and endorsed Bush Sr, for President, but was critical of Shrub, and was Obama's Foreign Policy Advisor in 2008.

Lots of people think of hiim as the Dems answer to Kissinger, which absolves him of nothing in my eyes.

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2. Sociopaths, all of them, sociopaths.

The story is that the evening of 911, Rumsfeld said to Dimson, this is your reason to invade Iraq.

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4. Technically, psychopath.

Major difference between the 2 is that sociopaths are impulse driven and show strong feelings of anger, rage, and usually have a record of early acting out and arrests, or other troubles in various systems.
Psychopaths are usually very much in control of their feelings, esp. in public, and can pass for human a lot of the time, except maybe to those who know them very very well and have had experience with their darker side.

both types have some things in common:

A disregard for laws and social mores
A disregard for the rights of others
A failure to feel remorse or guilt
A tendency to display violent behavior

Psychology today did a good article on the differences:

Sociopaths tend to be nervous and easily agitated. They are volatile and prone to emotional outbursts, including fits of rage. They are likely to be uneducated and live on the fringes of society, unable to hold down a steady job or stay in one place for very long. It is difficult but not impossible for sociopaths to form attachments with others. Many sociopaths are able to form an attachment to a particular individual or group, although they have no regard for society in general or its rules. In the eyes of others, sociopaths will appear to be very disturbed. Any crimes committed by a sociopath, including murder, will tend to be haphazard, disorganized and spontaneous rather than planned.

Psychopaths, on the other hand, are unable to form emotional attachments or feel real empathy with others, although they often have disarming or even charming personalities. Psychopaths are very manipulative and can easily gain people’s trust. They learn to mimic emotions, despite their inability to actually feel them, and will appear normal to unsuspecting people. Psychopaths are often well educated and hold steady jobs. Some are so good at manipulation and mimicry that they have families and other long-term relationships without those around them ever suspecting their true nature.

When committing crimes, psychopaths carefully plan out every detail in advance and often have contingency plans in place. Unlike their sociopathic counterparts, psychopathic criminals are cool, calm, and meticulous. Their crimes, whether violent or non-violent, will be highly organized and generally offer few clues for authorities to pursue. Intelligent psychopaths make excellent white-collar criminals and "con artists" due to their calm and charismatic natures.