Posted on 07/19/2012 6:31:17 PM PDT by robowombat
Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warns Newsmax.TV that a confrontation with Iran would be disastrous for the United States, lasting for years and possibly devastating America's economy.
“A war in the Middle East, in the present context, may last for years,” Brzezinski, who served in the Carter White House, tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. “And the economic consequences of it are going to be devastating for the average American.
“High inflation. Instability. Insecurity. Probably significant isolation for the United States in the world scene,” Brzezinski says. “Can you name me any significant country that’s going to be in that war together on our side?
“That’s something no one can afford to ignore,” Brzezinski adds.
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Brzezinski's warning comes as Iran apparently is ramping up tensions in the region. On Wednesday, a bus carrying Israeli youth exploded in a Bulgarian resort, killing at least six people and wounding 27, police and hospital officials said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it "an Iranian terror attack" and promised a tough response.
Syria, meanwhile, a close ally of Iran's, appears on the brink of collapse as fighting engulfs Damascus. On Monday, a bomb killed the chief of its security operations — a devastating strike that indicates a serious weakening in the security around President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
As the U.S. fortifies its presence in the Persian Gulf in preparation for a possible showdown with Tehran over its nuclear arsenal and its threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, Brzezinski paints a frightening picture of how the U.S. would be affected by yet another war in the Middle East.
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Zbig-who?
Another Carter failure. His Iran policy was a failure. Tell the guy to get lost.
And his Marxist daughter with Scarborough.
ROTFLMAO!!!
So 0bama IS going to attack Iran as an October surprise and blame that war on his destruction of the economy?
Brzezinski is a pacifist surrender monkey. Period.
Plenty of Iranians would be willing to fight for freedom....if only the POTUS wouldn’t stab them in the back.
Considering the nature of so-called “peace”, what’s the big difference?
If he is wrong, the war could last fifteen minutes.
“Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warns Newsmax.TV that a confrontation with Iran would be disastrous for the United States, lasting for years and possibly devastating America’s economy.”
Coming from a Leftist left-over from the Carter administration, I would have thought that US economic devastation would be a good thing. Obama seems to think so. If it wasn’t for his anti-war base, Obama would love the economic devastation.
"Brzezinski's a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino."
(Apologies to Don Corleone)
They`re not going to trust 0bama, especially faced with the prospect of joining in some kind of alliance with a homosexual-infested military .
Plus, we`re not allowed to actually win wars anymore, so what`s their incentive? We`re not going to topple that regime.
Women and children hardest hit!
Bullshit, you globalist, power-mongering, sick bastard. Now go back to shuffleboard.
This may be true but this anti american should keep his commie trap shut and not keep our enemies so informed. He should have said war is hell but there is a point when you have to start throwing punches at the town bully and knock him on his rear end.
Hey Zbig!
When you are NOT committed, any task can take forever!
So, let’s assume for a moment, we have an American President, who has as his National Security and Foreign Policy priorities, the protection of OUR interests, which include ensuring the survival of the State of Israel.
That President could decapitate Iran’s leadership, disable their command and control, and take out their radars, air and shore defenses.
Addressing their deeply buried targets could then be a methodical campaign.
No soldier need set foot on the sands of Iran.
If that genocidal manipulator and his former sh*t-for-brains boss Jimmah Carter had any sense, they would both STFU, as it was due to THEIR incompetence and malignant plotting that the eight year war between Iraq and Iran broke out in the first place.
In the spring of 1980, our hostages were still being held by the Assahollah and his ‘student’ terrorists in our Embassy in Tehran, and that was when Brzezinski met with representatives of Saddam Hussein in Amman Jordan, where the message was conveyed that the United States would not necessarily be heartbroken if Iraq were to pursue long standing territorial disputes with Iran by annexing Iranian territory, and with that wink and a nudge, Iraq began that long war with Iran, and it was all in the naive hope by Brzezinski and Carter that by applying ‘pressure’ on Iran via Iraq, that it would somehow improve their own impotent hand so far as negotiating for the release of the hostages.
Ironically, the premiere trainer and leader of what were known as the ‘Basiji’ (Iranian children pressed into military service), taught those children how to serve the Assahollah as human mine sweepers, and Iran imported thousands of little plastic keys, and they were distributed to those children and told that if they were blown up and died by striking an Iraqi mine, that the little plastic key would unlock the gates of ‘paradise’ and usher them into the presence of ‘allah’. And the name of that trainer of the Basiji, who relied upon the support of those Iranian kids that survived to get him elected mayor of Tehran as he began his own political career years later?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
As Paul Harvey might have said “now you know the rest of the story”. And if there were any justice at all in this world, Carter and Brzezinski would have been put on trial for inciting that genocidal war between Iraq and Iran.
In matters of American foreign policy, I believe that our enemies should be informed that, in the end, there's always Nukes.
Ummm, all the 'changes' we've seen in the ME so far have been for the worst...
And before that, Carter undercut the Shah at a time when Iran could have been kept from going under the sway of the Islamic radicalism by suppressing a few thousand Islamics. Instead, we got the Ayatollahs and arguably the beginning of the rise of modern Islamic radicalism.
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