The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser
Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998
Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001
Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his
memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began
to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet
intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to
President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that
correct?
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But
perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to
provoke it?
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they
intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in
Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of
truth. You don't regret anything today?
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: 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?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to
Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a
rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading
religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in
common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan
militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing
more than what unites the Christian countries.Translated from the French by Bill Blum
Brzezinski is correct. There is no global Islam. Only the spectre of one.
As for Ukraine. A nation divided. Already impoverished. It is ripe for the picking -apart.
Instead of "some stirred up Moslems" - created and nurtured by NATO, we have another fighting force of western nurtured fascists thugs. Gladio style (A)? Or a Gladio B? Doesn't matter?
It would seem those two have co-mingled In the Ukraine. And Chechnya.
Would the western backed thugs be willing to spend months poking away at Russia?
Also
Their was an absolutely useless vote at the UN declaring the Crimean referendum illegal. As if ?
It is a non-binding resolution, purely nonsensical exercise in PR. Expect the news to rehash this psyop all weekend.
Hi
ReplyDeleteA good friend mine who lives town is Afghanistan and he told when walking to school that day they saw a Russian soldier standing near by, this was first. They walked over to him and asked what he was doing the answer was I don't know and I'm not Russian I'm East German they had us dress in Russian uniforms. He told me about 2 weeks later real Russian soldiers showed and the others disappeared.
He's family had money so the left the country for good first to England were there was family then on to Amerika. He still has family there in Kabul and at that time it was very modern and western. Women were in all professions and dressed western and the country side was completely different but they all got along that is until we came.
Just think the young Russian Lt. and Captains of this madness are now Russian Generals and years ago in reading what one them had say about the made up conflict they would never forgive Amerika
Hi jo!
DeleteSad to think of the country of your birth being so utterly destroyed- sigh
I doubt Russia will forget this bit of history, though one never knows for sure
But do the Ukrainians understand how easily they can be used, abused and tossed aside by the big boys in NATO?
I wonder about that?
speaking of Brzenzski:
ReplyDeleteBrzenzski and russiaphobia (epidemic in the US universities) drive the US made ukraine crisis
'Boyle: Indeed Brzezinski wants to crackup Russia into its constituent units.
Robles: Right, I think it was 68 autonomous regions, if that’s what it was.
Boyle: It’s more dangerous than that! In that Obama’s mentor at Columbia was Brzezinski. And Brzezinski ran the foreign affairs apparatus for Obama’s campaign and he has staffed the Obama administration with his acolytes and protégés, like McFaul – the recently resigning ambassador.
Robles: I’m sorry, can you expand a little bit on McFaul? You said he is one of Brzezinski’s protégé.
Boyle: Yes, he is from the Hoover Institute at Stanford, which is a neo-conservative operation out there, and Brzezinski is one of these people.
Robles: Was McFaul chosen by Brzezinski?
Boyle: I think all the high-level appointments in the Obama administration in foreign affairs have been run by Brzezinski. That is my personal feeling looking at it. Yes, Brzezinski decided not to take a position himself, but all these people that have surrounded Obama, not just on Russia, but other areas, are Brzezinski protégés and indeed that goes back in the Democratic Party I think since Carter came to power and Brzezinski was his National Security Advisor. You know, he was the one who started the Afghan Mujahidin war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and bragged about it.
So, within the Democratic Party Brzezinski is considered to be their foreign affairs guru and he was Obama’s mentor at Columbia, and it is a matter of public record that Brzezinski was running the foreign affairs apparatus for the Obama campaign.
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