Brzezinski derided Bush’s talk of a “decisive ideological struggle” against radical Islam as “simplistic and demagogic,” and called it a “mythical historical narrative” employed to justify a “protracted and potentially expanding war.”
“To argue that America is already at war in the region with a wider Islamic threat, of which Iran is the epicenter, is to promote a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he said.
Most stunning and disturbing was his description of a “plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran.” It would, he suggested, involve “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
This was an unmistakable warning to the US Congress, replete with quotation marks to discount the “defensive” nature of such military action, that the Bush administration is seeking a pretext for an attack on Iran. Although he did not explicitly say so, Brzezinski came close to suggesting that the White House was capable of manufacturing a provocation--including a possible terrorist attack within the US--to provide the casus belli for war.
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The last "friendly fire" was discribed as being done by "rouge pilots". The USA has just enough of them to start things off.
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I'm sure Harper is working on the speech already. Bush had once told him "to tell" the citizens of Canada. Harper is telling us now, as to how he respects anyone else's opinion. The Reserves are being introduced to a new contract as well. Presently, they have to volunteer for duty in Afghanistan. The new contract will guarantee their jobs when they get back and consequently can be sent anywhere as part of their duty. An increase of available troops is already coming.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.