ZBiggy; Long-distance analysis

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, ZBiggy to those of us who suffered through his tenure as Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, has decided that an injection of additional troops into Afghanistan puts the United States in danger of being like the Soviets in the 80s in a HuffPo interview. Keep in mind, Biggy has never set foot in Afghanistan and he admitted in 1998 that his policies in 1978 may have triggered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

And it’s with a similar perspective that Brzezinski now doubts the that the answer to what ails Afghanistan is more troops. “I think we’re literally running the risk of unintentionally doing what the Russians did. And that, if it happens, would be a tragedy,” Brzezinski told the Huffington Post on Friday. “When we first went into Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, we were actually welcomed by an overwhelming majority of Afghans. They did not see us as invaders, as they saw the Soviets.”

However, Brzezinski noted that just as the Soviets were able to delude themselves that they had a loyal army of communist-sympathizers who would transform the country, the U.S.-led forces may now be making similar mistakes. He said that the conduct of military operations “with little regard for civilian casualties” may accelerate the negative trend in local public opinion regarding the West’s role. “It’s just beginning, but it’s significant,” Brzezinski said.

This is the same guy whose reticence to support the Shah of Iran brought on the problems that come with the Islamic Republic these days. His reticence to support the Nicaraguan government brought on a communist regime there and fanned the flames of communist insurgencies in Central America. His weakness on basic national defense issues encouraged the Soviets to station a combat brigade in Cuba – ninety miles from our shores. And of course, because he was willing to half-way support the mujahadeen in Afghanistan, the Soviets invaded assured that the weak Carter crew would do nothing to prevent their centuries-old dream of securing warm water ports.

Now, with an analysis based purely on reportage from left-wing sources apparently, he accuses us of attempting a Soviet-style occupation. He goes on with even more hyperbole about the coming of World War IV;

“Well, if McCain is president and if his Secretary of State is Joe Lieberman and his Secretary of Defense is [Rudolph] Giuliani, we will be moving towards the World War IV that they have been both favoring and predicting,” he said, calling that an “appalling concept” (and adding that by their lights, the Cold War counted as World War III).

Well, dumbass, if the Cold War was World War III, why didn’t you act like it was a world war? We faced a modern army in Europe with our own Korean War-era equipment, the military was woefully underfunded and underpaid and every threat was met with surrender and weakness. Acting as if those things never happened, ZBiggy drives on with his yammering;

Asked who he would like to see in a potential Obama cabinet, Brzezinski said: “I think [Sen. Chuck] Hagel. I would like to see a bipartisan cabinet. I think we need one very badly — and we did well in the Cold War when we had one. I would say Hagel and [Sen. Dick] Lugar would be very good Republicans [for Obama].” He also cited Sen. Joe Biden as a potential Secretary of State, in which case it would also be possible to “keep [Secretary of Defense Bob] Gates in the job for a few months.”

Any credibility this doofus ever had evaporated in December 1988 when the wall in Europe came down. And when did his “bipartisan cabinet” ever do “well”? Point to one damn thing, ZBiggy.

And the ignorant HuffPo masses fall right in line begging for Chuck Hagel to be Obama’s VP and lauding the Taliban for ending the opium trade. Crackpots with crackpot views of the world.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Jimmy Carter, Politics, Terror War