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Brzezinski’s unconvincing
antiwar posturing
Larry Chin
Online
Journal
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Neoliberal elite Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the
leading architects of the "war on terrorism” across
the Middle East and the Eurasian subcontinent (and whose book
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
laid the groundwork for 9/11) has adopted a politically expedient
wolf-in-sheep’s clothing role.
His much-publicized criticisms of Bush-Cheney’s “mismanagement”
of Iraq (whose latest piece, The Smart Way Out, serves as a primer
on the current neoliberal war policy) has garnered raves from
those who are misguided or ignorant enough to believe that Brzezinski
is, in any way, “antiwar.”
The key passage in the new Brzezinski piece leaves no illusions
that that neoliberal position maintains the existing "anti-terrorism"
pretext for endless war: "The end of the occupation will
thus be a boon for the war on al-Qaeda, bringing to an end a misguided
adventure that not only precipitated the appearance of al-Qaeda
in Iraq but also diverted the United States from Afghanistan,
where the original al-Qaeda threat grew and still persists."
(Article continues below)
What Brzezinski seeks is to simply reverse the Bush-Cheney “blunder,”
and return to the geostrategic position achieved shortly after
9/11: " . . . a regional conference should be convened to
promote regional stability, border control and other security
arrangements, as well as regional economic development -- all
of which would help mitigate the unavoidable risks connected with
U.S. disengagement."
“Regional economic development” is Brzezinski’s
code for “oil.”
Brzezinski is currently a national security/foreign policy adviser
for Barack Obama.
He would undoubtedly play a major role for Hillary Clinton, should
she become the Democratic Party nominee. Note also that Brzezinski
was the foreign policy adviser for John McCain's presidential
campaign in 1999-2000.
Brzezinski should not be trusted any more than his old friend
Henry Kissinger, who not surprisingly lurks behind McCain.
The “war on terrorism” -- including the occupation
of Iraq -- continues unabated.
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