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Former Carter Adviser Brzezinski: US Global Supremacy ‘Is Over’
Money News ^ | Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012 07:47 AM | Dan Weil

Posted on 02/22/2012 2:38:49 PM PST by robowombat

The United States can no longer reign supreme as the world’s sole superpower, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security adviser and a prolific foreign affairs scholar.

“The era of global supremacy by a major power . . . is over,” he tells Yahoo.

“The world is now much more diversified. There is now the new East in Asia. There is now a globally, politically awakened population.”

But that doesn’t mean the demise of the United States, as long as we’re willing to make some changes, Brzezinski, says.

“We have to accustomize ourselves to that world. If we want to compete in it, we have to revitalize ourselves.”

When it comes to China, the United States must accept its rising power, he says. “But we can certainly compete more effectively if we do a lot of thing internally to reawaken creativity, confidence, and even the moral significance of America in the world.”

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KEYWORDS: brzezinski; bungler; carter; democrats; detestablescum; dncsayslose; elections; idiots; incompetent; jimmycarter; nobama2012; nodemocrats2012; paxamericana; zbigniewbrzezinski
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To: Lazlo in PA

Exactly. I remember this bunch telling us that we were just going to have to accept the fact of a Soviet Union as a co-equal superpower.


41 posted on 02/22/2012 5:08:55 PM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: robowombat

We should listen to a man who sat there for 444 days and let our embassy staff be guarded by a bunch of radicals who had nothing but threat to put in front of them, tell us how to handle a serious situation?

This man is not to be trusted to control even the slightest situation. He, certainly, is nobody to listen to with regard to a warlike situation. He just does not have what it takes to be a Secretary of State. Now he is not and should not be listened to.


42 posted on 02/22/2012 5:09:46 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: robowombat

Said the same thing pre-Reagan. Never was more than a five watt bulb in a 220 socket.


43 posted on 02/22/2012 5:37:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
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To: opentalk
Ever notice these old global manipulators never get cancer, or terminal illness and live beyond the average citizen.

They may help prove the existence of either vampires or resident space aliens.

44 posted on 02/22/2012 6:06:51 PM PST by oyez
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To: opentalk
Ever notice these old global manipulators never get cancer, or terminal illness and live beyond the average citizen.

They may help prove the existence of either vampires or resident space aliens.

45 posted on 02/22/2012 6:07:15 PM PST by oyez
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To: robowombat

While there can be no denying the harm that has been done to the republic by progressives like this Zbig slimeball and the onerous administration that was a part of, I submit that his victory dance is premature.


46 posted on 02/22/2012 6:21:00 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Expel the Occupy White House squatters !!!)
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To: robowombat

FU ZBIG

ZBig is the POS whose policy funded and instigated the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=706&source=hp&q=Brzezinski+Cyclone+Iran+Shah+"George+Ball"+1978

47 posted on 02/22/2012 7:43:18 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: robowombat

That’s the problem with lefties-all of their schemes seem to involve the undoing of America. If only they could annunciate a positive vision for this country, which is really the only country in the world with the drive and imagination to make their doofus utopias realities. Just as well that they can’t, though; none of their ideas are worth much, anyway.


48 posted on 02/22/2012 8:29:18 PM PST by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: robowombat

And this was the Democrats’ plan all along...


49 posted on 02/22/2012 10:34:28 PM PST by Crucial
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To: robowombat

And I bet he did everything in his power throughout his career to make it so. But he can’t hold a candle to The One.


50 posted on 02/23/2012 1:35:30 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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In your dreams, Brzezinski.


51 posted on 02/23/2012 1:37:27 AM PST by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: Darteaus94025

And my little triangle of a country had better get hip to that new reality. Stop letting POTUS boss us around, and start finding regional allies, such as South Sudan, India, Egyptian Copts, Syrian Alawites and Christians after Assad, Iranian Baluchis, Kurds, Armenians, etc. We’re not alone here. We’re an eastern minority. There are other eastern minorities, and it’s time we all banded together for mutual protection from the Islamofascists, both Shiite and Sunni. Uncle Sam doesn’t rule here anymore.

Despite Brzezinsky totally, but that’s life.


52 posted on 02/23/2012 1:40:58 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: robowombat

Did he say that before or after he said, “mission accomplished”?


53 posted on 02/23/2012 4:23:16 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: robowombat
“The era of global supremacy by a major power . . . is over,” he tells Yahoo.

Is he complaining or bragging?

Oh. Wait. Urkel is finishing the job Mr. Peanut started so he's obviously bragging.

54 posted on 02/23/2012 6:25:16 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: robowombat

As well a former Carter adviser should well know. Fortunately for the U.S., we had Ronald Reagan to repair the mess Carter made. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’re going to have an Obama’s Reagan, given the current crop of weak-livered Republican candidates. Newt is probably the closest thing we’ve got right now, and he’s no Ronald Reagan.


55 posted on 02/23/2012 7:21:13 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Not yet, but give Zero another five years, and... Thanks robowombat.
56 posted on 02/25/2012 8:29:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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