Can Democrats Fix America's Image? - Zbigniew Brzezinski

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/02/A_Discussion_on_Political_Power_at_CUNY

Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that only a President "not of the party in power" can positively change America's image abroad.

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What is the most effective way to influence the exercise of political power? Can genocide be halted? What are the natural limits of political power?

Join three preeminent policy and opinion makers as they discuss the violation and defense of human rights by national and international powers.

Featuring Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor; Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times; and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center moderates - City University New York

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China — today's Taiwan), the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II), the brokering of the Camp David Accords, the transition of Iran to an anti-Western Islamic state, encouraging reform in Eastern Europe, emphasizing human rights in U.S. foreign policy, the arming of the mujaheddin in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet-friendly Afghan government and later to counter the Soviet invasion, and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

He is currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils. He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

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[marcusjansen239369]

Zbigniew Brzezinski is a New Worlder Order scam artist! Read about him! Be ware!

[ferrozm]

Brezinski was also the guy who helper pol pot massacre people in cambodia and help fund the mujahadine. This guy is responsible for a lot of our foreign policy blunders too and he's the guy advising O-bomb-a's foreign policy!?

[Seedofwinter]

@ferrozm The Mujahadine did have some radicals like OBL, but it also had benevolent humans like Ahmed Shah Massoud, whom tried to usher in Democracy to Afghanistan, but failed when Al Qaeda and the ISI finally assassinated him because he wouldn't sell his Country to Pakistan.

You have to look at the "grand chessboard" if we didn't contribute to the resistance in Afghanistan, and the Soviets succeeded, the cold war would have continued.

[scheming8rythem]

when he dies, he is going to get bad bad bad bad bad bad karma and so all the corrupted fuckers will

[everlandH8ter]

@marcusjansen239369 The evil motherfucker that he is,he scares me with his intelligance

[machogun]

Evidently, the world is NOT thinking.

[bluemonday2020]

this Polak is partly responsible for the creation of all these extremist in the middle east

[jamilehfarr]

The image of America went down the the drain with him and carterin the office!They are responsible for the mess we are in now!

[jamilehfarr]

He was not worried about America's image when he and cater,over threw the shah of iran,and brought khomieni to power! and created Ben ladin.

[ghana25]

in 2000 Brzeziński was supporting mccain for president, in than suddenly he supports obama. One of his sons was in the 2008 election campagne for mccain you really don' t think that' s messed up?

[Tobias8164]

U people talk about Saddam haha

Just wait and see. Get ready for another 8 years of liea deception propaganda and stripping of ur Rights, Day by Day.

[21156590]

FUCKING SHIT.