Zbigniew Brzezinski (video)

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¡§The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership¡¨


http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/brzezinski/


from The Library of Congress

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1. Dick Lugar as Kerry's choice for Secretary of State?

Is Brzenski with the Democrats, or against them?

;)

As for a possible second Bush administration, Powell is damaged goods, but not just because he went to the UN with a bunch of lies. Powell was perceived as a moderate, and in many respects he still is regarded that way domestically. His views, roughly consistent with the goals of the State Department, have put him at odds with the neocons, and in many cases that has led to conflicts with the White House. Bush had advice coming from moderates, but he refused to listen. On several occasions he undermined Powell's authority, and weakened the State Department's position as an arm of US foreign policy.

So imagine if Bush were to appoint a Democrat to be Secretary of State, Lieberman, as Brzenski suggests, or perhaps somebody like Biden. What difference would that make if Bush were to ignore their input anyway, and put forward Rumsfeld as the true face of US foreign policy? It sounds nuts to think that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz represent US diplomacy at its finest, but that is exactly what Bush has allowed to happen.

As for Kerry, (a) there's sufficient Republican representation in Congress that he can safely appoint a Democrat to head the State Department, and (b) the Republicans have discredited themselves. Even though there are moderates like Lugar in the party, it functions as an extremist party and its embrace of extremist rhetoric has earned it a reputation of being extremist. It's best to let that party put its own house in order, and decide whether it can truly accommodate centrist voices, or whether it will continue to isolate and undermine them. There's little to be gained by appointing a moderate Republican that couldn't be gained with less risk by appointing a moderate Democrat.

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2. Thanks much

I have always found him fascinating. He does a beautiful job of sounding the alarms on our current wrong headed foreign policy. I wish we could get this played on tv until nearly every American has seen it.

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3. Beware, Zbig is bad news

Just because he wants to put a smiley face on imperial fascism does not mean he's a good guy. I read his book "The Grand Chessboard" and his ideas a very ugly yet wrapped up in nice sounding words.

He is as much a part of the problem as Kissinger, with whom he sits on the Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce, and he is also a long time member of the CFR. He's bad news, don't be fooled.

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4. Zbig is an asshole, but a much smarter asshole than

the "faith-based" half-wits currently running US foreign
affairs. Zbig wants to stem the haemorrhaging of US global
power and influence accellerated unintentionally by Shrub and
his minions. I think he's too late, and I have mixed
feeling about it anyway, as US policies these last 60 years
or so have been very pernicious and short-sighted.