Tag: Brzezinski

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Full Name: Zbigniew Brzezinski

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2007-05-30 An al-Qaeda terrorist attack in the US intended to provoke war between the United States and Iran was a possibility that must be taken seriously, and that the administration of President George W Bush might accuse Iran of responsibility for such an attack and use it to justify carrying out an attack on Iran.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski at a private meeting sponsored by the non-partisan Committee for the Republic in Washington.
2007-03-25 Using this phrase [= War on Terror] has actually undermined our ability to effectively confront the real challenges we face from fanatics who may use terrorism against us.

The damage these three words have done -- a classic self-inflicted wound -- is infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks when they were plotting against us in distant Afghan caves. The phrase itself is meaningless. It defines neither a geographic context nor our presumed enemies. Terrorism is not an enemy but a technique of warfare -- political intimidation through the killing of unarmed non-combatants.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his article, Terrorized by 'War on Terror'
2007 'Bush disregarded the three basic imperatives of imperial geostrategy. As I described them (using deliberately archaic terminology) in The Grand Chessboard, these are “to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together”.’
-- Zbigniew Brzezinksi, in his book, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
2006-11-01 Zbigniew Brzezinski is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington
2006-11-01 Zbigniew Brzezinski is 78 years old
2004 Zbigniew Brzezinski is co-author with Mr. Gates of the report on Iran policy [Council on Foreign Relations]
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”.
1997-09-01 "Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states. All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia. The world's most populous aspirants to regional hegemony, China and India, are in Eurasia, as are all the potential political or economic challengers to American primacy. After the United States, the next six largest economies and military spenders are there, as are all but one of the world's overt nuclear powers, and all but one of the covert ones. Eurasia accounts for 75 percent of the world's population, 60 percent of its GNP, and 75 percent of its energy resources. Collectively, Eurasia's potential power overshadows even America's.
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Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions, Western Europe and East Asia. A glance at the map also suggests that a country dominant in Eurasia would almost automatically control the Middle East and Africa. With Eurasia now serving as the decisive geopolitical chessboard, it no longer suffices to fashion one policy for Europe and another for Asia. What happens with the distribution of power on the Eurasian landmass will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy...’
Zbigniew Brzezinski in his New York Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Affairs article from September/October 1997
1997-05 It was "imperative that all parties understand an important strategic reality: the United States is in the Persian Gulf to stay."
-- Zbigniew Brzenski, Brent Scowcroft and Richard Murphy, "Differentiated Containment," Foreign Affairs, May/June 1997, p. 30.
1997 "In brief, the U.S. policy goal must be unapologetically twofold: to perpetuate America's own dominant position for at least a generation and preferably longer still; and to create a geopolitical framework that can absorb the inevitable shocks and strains of social-political change while evolving into the geopolitical core of shared responsibility for peaceful global management."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997

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