Posted on 01/22/2012 6:03:57 PM PST by Nachum
Im quite sure Brzezinski and Obamas views on Israel are in complete alignment.
(Salon) Zbigniew Brzezinskis new book, Strategic Vision, imagines a world without American power. He envisions profound instability, faltering international cooperation and weak states falling prey to their more dominant neighbors. Describing the dystopia that would emerge if America goes under is a trick British historian Niall Ferguson pioneered. Unlike the jingoistic Ferguson, however, Brzezinski is able to envision China replacing America as the stabilizing force in world affairs. I dont think liberal states are more restrained or stabilizing, he says. The United States actions in the last 20 years, especially with the war in Iraq, do not give reassurance on that score.
In a telephone interview from his office at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Brzezinski has both praise and criticism for the president: He was an improvement by a very large score over his predecessor, but he could have been better. He thinks the Obama administration should have stuck to its guns in promoting a fair settlement in the Middle East. A longtime foe of Israels partisans in the United States, he says the Obama team fumbled by getting outmaneuvered by the Israelis. Then he gets blunter: Domestic politics interceded: The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.
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How about “Israelis Outmaneuvered Dumbo Without Even Breathing Hard”?
another leftist fool. There may be a kernel of truth in the idea that the Iraq war didn’t turn out the way it was hoped - but to say that it is an example of America’s “destabilizing influence” is sheer poppycock. The whole ideology behind the war was to create more stability in the region. Today the left is creating destabilization because they took up opposition to the war as an ideological mission, rather than a political mission. Now as we are faced with revolution throughout the middle east and a nuclear armed Iran backing most of the revolutionary forces the left is paralyzed to inject any stabilizing measures... They literally support chaos as a result.
“Describing the dystopia that would emerge if America goes under is a trick British historian Niall Ferguson pioneered. Unlike the jingoistic Ferguson, however, Brzezinski is able to envision China replacing America as the stabilizing force in world affairs”
Zbig couldn’t wipe Ferguson’s boots. Further Ferguson sees America as an essential force of good in the world. The author translate that to “jingoistic.” Tells you where he’s coming from.
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