Spiegel Interview With Zbigniew Brzezinski

[Joe_VB]

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but Mr. Brzezinski makes some very interesting point about the world.

Link:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14942.htm

snip:
SPIEGEL: Dr. Brzezinski, President Bush compares the dangers of terrorism with the dangers of the Cold War. He has even spoken repeatedly of a "nation at war" and will only accept "complete victory." Is he right or is he using exaggerated rhetoric?

Brzezinski: He is fundamentally wrong. Whether that is deliberate demagoguery or simply historical ignorance, I do not know. For four years I was responsible for coordinating the U.S. response in the event of a nuclear attack. And I can assure you that a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union on a comprehensive scale would have killed 160 to 180 million people within 24 hours.

No terrorist threat is comparable to that in the foreseeable future. Moreover, terrorism is essentially a technique of killing people and not the enemy as such. If one wages war on an invisible, unidentifiable phantom, one gets into a state of mind that virtually promotes dangerous exaggerations and distortions of reality.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Brzezinski is really, really smart. A bastard, but a smart one. nt

[Wilber_Stool]

2. I agree.

It's gotten to the point where I don't care so much about corruption, I just want somebody in there that knows how to run a government.