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Newsmaker Profile: Zbigniew Brzezinski




Brzezinski is credited for starting the chain of events leading to the Soviets invasion of Afghanistan, for supporting the Islamists (through our Pakistani allies) in making the Soviets leave Afghanistan in defeat.

Here, he admits those provocations.

More in-depth info re: our role in Afghanistan 1979 - 1990 may be found here:

War and Piece:

Here is Brzezinski in Afghanistan rallying the Islamists to victory in the late 70's, telling Afghan Jihadists: "Your cause is right. God is on your side."

YouTube - Zbigniew Brzezinski to Jihadists: Your cause is right!

Brzezinski is no doubt a gifted analyst but he is human and one of those human failings seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of radical Islam.
This misunderstanding led to his failure to recognize the true importance of his support for the Jihadists in Afghanistan in 1979. And it seems he has only superficially changed his view of them since then. His is a 19th Century European view of radical Islam which is that Jihad is a trifle and nothing to be concerned with. Or that Jihad is like a spiritual form of Yoga. This worldview manifests in a failure to recognize the unique importance of Islamic fundamentalism in Palestinian intransigence in the stalemate with Israel. A stalemate that only exists because the Palestians have been unable, so far, in pushing the Israelis into the sea.

Further, Brzezinski's belief in negotiating with the most committed Jihadist leaders betrays his lack of understanding that when an enemy has only your demise and capitulation as a goal there is no room for negotiation except how slowly or quickly shall the surrender or annihilation begin? That, or "how may we appease you?"

Here, he backs the candidacy of Barack Obama and suggests that our policies toward Israel are too warm, that the Palestinians don't already have the keys to achieving peace with the Israelis and that talking with fundamental Islamists is the same as negotiating with Communists.

YouTube - Barack Obama Endorsed by Zbigniew Brzezinski


In this Washington post article from 2005 he questions President Bush's comparing global Islamic terrorism with Communism.

But before he even gets up a head of steam he deflates his whole argument and makes invalid anything he might say or advise on the subject of foreign relations with regard to the GWOT and Islamic aggression when he reveals a faulty belief that Islamic extremism is ONLY Osama bin Laden as opposed to being endemic throughout the Islamic world and representing the beliefs and sentiments of almost 300 Million Muslims.

Brzezinsky clearly misunderestimates the nature and scope of Islamic Jihadism, at least as recently as 2005 and certainly prior to that. He doesn't understand the nature of the Koran, nor Quttb. Nor has he kept up with current events having to do with Islamic trends throughout the world or else he would know that all of the estimates by responsible analysts say that there actually are (and were existent at the time of this interview) hundreds of millions of Muslims who supported the goals and activities of Islkamists to spread the religion to all the world, using violence if necessary.

If any reader leaves this thread now and never returns they should leave knowing that Zbigniew Brzezinski does not understand Islamic Jihad and his failure to understand it has made the world more vulnerable to it. And now he is advising the Obama campaign. That means Obama innocently agrees with Brzezinski's flawed vision or that Obama has chosen Brzezinski BECAUSE of the Carter administration's National Security Adviser's blind spot when it comes to Islamism.

I do not trust his opinions as they pertain dealings with Islamic leaders. He has an inability to understand their religious motivation.

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OBL 11/24/02

Iriemon

You know, maybe I just didn't go to the places where these hundreds of millions hang out, but when I was a kid my family drove all around Turkey, and the Muslims there never once tried to spread Islam to me, using violence or otherwise. In fact, none of them tried to convince me to convert to Islam in any way. In fact, they were about the friendly people we met, even inviting us to dine with them and fish with them. With lectures about Islam or demanding I convert with a sword to my throat.

My dad was in Egypt last year and reports that none tried to force him to convert to Islam there either.

What is your source for the claim that there are hundreds of millions of Muslims who supported the goals and activities of Islamists to spread Islam to all the world, using violence if necessary?

In leaving the thread, my knowledge about who understands what is quite a bit different than what you assert.