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Date: 1998-01
“What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?”
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, when asked in an interview with the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur whether he regretted “having given arms and advice to future terrorists”.






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