Zbigniew Brzezinski Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan pep talk 1979

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Trustee, Trilateral Commission; Director (1973-1976)
Director, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) (1972 to 1977)
In 1979 Carters National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski went into Pakistans border regions with Afghanistan to give a little pep talk to some prospective majehadeen (Holy Warriors).
In a 1997 interview for CNN's Cold War Series, Brzezinski hinted about the Carter Administration's proactive Afghanistan policy before the Soviet invasion in 1979, that he had conceived.
QUESTION: 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?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

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In 1998, in an interview in Le Nouvel Observateur, Brzezinski dismissed the risks of blow back and defended his support of the mujahideen in the following terms: 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?

These days, Brzezinski might take stirred-up Moslems more seriously.
If he ever republishes his The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives, he and other American geostrategists may wish to reconsider the role of Muslims as something other than dispensable pawns.

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[Ron Lewenberg]

The Taliban was formed in 1991. Why the need to lie?

[phoneyid]

USA's Brzezinski is addressing ethnic "Pashtun", who, with USA guidance, later came to form what is now known as the "Taliban".

So here we see that early formation of Mujihadeen (Holly Warriors) being motivated and soon to be well and primarily funded by USA to become the Taliban.

These Pashtun are the founding members of the Taliban, they just weren't known as that at that time.

Do you have any other questions of semantics to seed doubts of historical fact.

[Ron Lewenberg]

There are and were many Pashtun groups. We aided a number of groups including the Haqqani Network. These are and were seperate from the Taliban, but are now allied to the Taliban.

Alliances change over time.

[phoneyid]

Recently, House Republicans appointed the illegal arms and drug runner Lt Col Oliver North (aka, The Drug Store Marine) as an adviser on Afghanistan. Accomplished at funding CIA Black Ops with Drug Money.

Afghanistan now produces nearly all of the world's elicit opium. app. 90% of it at 6,500Tonns/annum.

Over Time: The more things have changed, the more the've stayed the same.

The evidence is staring us in the face.

[pebi86]

1. Who is this mafia guy with the sunglases?

2. U.S. Security Advisor.

1. Ok...

[dogisgreat1]

Now we wonder why elements of Pakistan's ISI are still helping the mujahideen fight against a new "godless" occupier. Is god still on their side, Dr. Brzezinski?

[Käptn Kook]

people don't get it.

[ALEX POVAR]

Блять, ну выпала на долю России судьба такая - мир спасать. Если не она, то кто же? И ведь если не уделит этому внимания, она будет следующей кто получит пинка. Ну будет мир полыхать и че? Понаедет всякого сброда к нам. Как таджики суки после своей гражданской войны, все выепываются, русофобы галимые. А сами лезут как тараканы. Жаль Правительство наше тупое и гнилое.

[supafuckinmingster]

Doesn't Taliban just mean student? It's not an official organisation as such.

[DrPolitiks]

No, they are not exactly separate, Mullah Omar was a Mujihadeen fighter in the war against the Soviet Union and then became the leader of the Taliban.

Sure, there used to be many Pashtun groups--but since the Taliban consolidated its power base, it has either absorbed or eliminated many of its Pashtun rivals. Albeit, dialogue between the Mullahs and the U.S. govt have picked up again, you know, "alliances change over time" and its just spilled blood.

[MrAnomilus]

Clearly, Brzezinski authored the plan to draw the Soviets into Afghanistan, with no regard whatsoever for the fate of the Afghan people. Thus creating that "crisis", the "solution" then became to create a terrorist mercenary force to oppose the Soviets. This "solution" then led to the next "crisis", which was to morph the mujahedin into Al Qaeda, and make them a global threat, setting the stage for a global "solution".

See the pattern? See how it works?

There was no crisis that was not created

[MrAnomilus]

No, he didn't "fuck up", this has all gone exactly according to plan.

These plans are engineered to generate an ongoing and deepening series of crisis, each one with a pre-packaged "solution" that leads straight into the next and bigger crisis.

These people just love it when they are portrayed as somehow being incompetent and inept, when every stage of their plans is succeeding, for them. Only to the uninformed and misinformed does it appear to be "failure".

They are failing us, but not them.