One of Brzezinski “strategic” scheme’s was arming the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to draw the Soviet Union into a long and protratced conflict, helping to create Al-Qaeda.
He had convinced US President Carter at the time to fund a clandestine CIA operation to launch a proxy-war against the USSR-backed Afghan government to “induce a Soviet military intervention”.
“We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would,” Brzezinski admitted during a 1998 interview with French weekly, Le Nouvel Observateur.
“The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.'”
“That clandestine operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into an Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?” he challenged the interviewer.
“What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?”
The “agitated Moslems” however, somehow have found a way to attack the World Trade Center as well as the Pentagon, killing thousands of civilians and launching the never-ending “war on terror”. The decision of the Carter Administration in 1979 to intervene and destabilise Afghanistan was the root cause of Afghanistan’s destruction as a nation.
The Novel Observateur asked him why “it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today” because of Brzezinski’s actions.
He dismissed the concerns outright. “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.”
Brzezinski also later urged the Clinton administration to push for NATO’s eastward expansion. Some 75 per cent of the world’s people live in Eurasia, and most of the world’s physical wealth is there, both in enterprises and in natural resources. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world’s GNP and about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources.
Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, according to official biography, but sources speculate that he was actually born in the Ukrainian town of Kharkov, which at the time was part of the USSR, but his parents registered him as having been born in Poland.
