A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski

"Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ... Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration’s policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.

"Brzezinski, who opposed the March 2003 invasion and has publicly denounced the war as a colossal foreign policy blunder, began his remarks on what he called the 'war of choice' in Iraq by characterizing it as 'a historic, strategic and moral calamity.'

"'Undertaken under false assumptions,' he continued, 'it is undermining America's global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America's moral credentials. Driven by Manichean principles and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability.'

"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.' [Emphasis added]."
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