Zbigniew Brzezinski died last night.

[Thala Dan]

Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.

He supported billions in military aid for Islamic militants fighting invading Soviet troops in Afghanistan. He tacitly encouraged China to continue backing the murderous regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia, lest the Soviet-backed Vietnamese take over that country.

He managed to delay implementation of the SALT II arms treaty in 1979 by raising objections to Soviet behavior in Vietnam, Africa and Cuba; and when the Soviets went into Afghanistan late that year, “SALT disappeared from the U.S.-Soviet agenda,” as he noted in a memoir four years later.

Al-Qaeda's Godfather Is Dead - Good Riddance

His policy of rallying Jihadis (vid) caused millions of death. Brzezinski did not regret that:

"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?"

The 9/11 attacks, the war on Syria, the recent massacre in Manchester and the murder of 28 Copts yesterday in Egypt are direct consequences of Brzezinski's "some stirred-up Moslems" strategy of exporting revolutions. The growth of the fundamentalist Saudi Wahhabi creed, a danger to all mankind, was prepared and propagated by him.

Much of what is happening today goes back a long way.

[gordon_s1942]

Thats

Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.





Al-Qaeda's Godfather Is Dead - Good Riddance









Much of what is happening today goes back a long way.

This is where that quote made by ( I think by ) Winston Churchill that "Those that ignore History are in danger of repeating it" applies.

[Thala Dan]

Thats

This is where that quote made by ( I think by ) Winston Churchill that "Those that ignore History are in danger of repeating it" applies.

You’re so right, Gordon.

And yet…..here we go again.

Citizen Trump was right about the Saudis; President Trump, not so much

It's the world's biggest funder of terrorism. Saudi Arabia funnels our petrodollars, our very own money, to fund the terrorists that seek to destroy our people.”

So said Donald Trump, private citizen.

But then President Trump made Saudi Arabia his very first foreign destination.
Trump rode in a golf cart with King Salman, did a traditional sword dance and speechified about America’s great friendship with “the Magnificent Kingdom.”

What changed Trump’s mind?

Apparently, $110 billion.
That’s how much the Saudis announced Saturday that they’ll spend to buy advanced American weaponry — one of the biggest arms deals in history.

This weapons deal, the president said, is all about U.S. jobs.

Yet how many Americans want to work to arm the country that, as Citizen Trump said, “blew up the World Trade Center”?

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

Mark Twain

[mandc]

Zbigniew Brzezinski 89
Pol Pot 73

Kind of ironic how people that cause so many premature deaths often lead long lives themselves

[enf]

The f*cking Saudis....by the time they turn the weapons on the US or its allies, he'll be gone and much richer.

I'm not surprised really. Trump left them off the proposed banned list as he did every country where he had business interests....IIRC.

[Thala Dan]

Zbigniew Brzezinski 89
Pol Pot 73

Kind of ironic how people that cause so many premature deaths often lead long lives themselves

Really knocks the shit out of any concept of natural justice, don't it.

Mind you, quite a few of them do it with a little help from their friends......like the Nazis who enjoyed happy-ever-afters in Brazil.

The f*cking Saudis....by the time they turn the weapons on the US or its allies, he'll be gone and much richer.

I'm not surprised really. Trump left them off the proposed banned list as he did every country where he had business interests....IIRC.

Fortunately, The U.S. knows exactly where each and every one of those weapons is located at any given time

The US Lost Track of a Billion Dollars Worth of Weapons in Iraq—Again

In June 2014, Iraqi forces dropped their weapons, shed their uniforms, and abandoned their posts as ISIS militants stormed into and captured Mosul. More than a year later, the United States began funneling $1.6 billion worth of new weaponry and other support to the beleaguered Iraqi army. The arsenal included tens of thousands of assault rifles, hundreds of armored vehicles, hundreds of mortar rounds, nearly 200 sniper rifles, and other gear.

What happened to much of it is now a mystery. According to a government audit obtained by Amnesty International, the US Army admits that it failed to accurately track this recent infusion of arms and other military supplies.

If you were an incurable cynic, you could almost suspect that..............NOoooooo........couldn't possibly be........just incompetence, I guess.

[lsemmens]

The simplest thing to do would be to embed a GPS chip in every weapon delivered to a foreign power.