Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Zbig, Carter, or Helmer: who is most culpable?















"If ever there was a man who displayed on his face the evil on his mind, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski, (lead image, right) who died last week at a hospital near Washington.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who employed Brzezinski as his National Security Advisor between 1977 and 1981, the only high official post Brzezinski reached, said he “helped me set vital foreign policy goals, was a source of stimulation for the departments of defense and state, and everyone valued his opinion.”  Of Carter’s three claims, only the first is true; the second is ironic hyperbole; the third is completely false. If Carter cannot tell the truth now about Brzezinski, after having 36 years to reflect on it, Carter reveals the principal source of Brzezisnki’s power, when he exercised it.   For Carter was no innocent ventriloquized by the evil Svengali (lead image, left), as in the original Svengali tale. Carter was simply more mendacious than Brzezinski, and is entirely to blame for doing what Brzezinski told him to do.  
Brzezinski was an obsessive Russia-hater from the beginning to the end. That led to the monumental failures of Carter’s term in office;  the hatreds Brzezinski released had an impact which continues to be catastrophic for the rest of the world.
...But that’s getting ahead of our little tale. Wellford told Vernamonti and me he had no choice but to give us strict orders for the meeting scheduled the following week with Carter. Our case studies might, he said, be included in the tabs to the PRP briefing book we would present to the president. But the conclusions, and the recommendations for reform of the National Security Council, would be eliminated. Then Wellford added an ultimatum:  Vernamonti and I would be allowed to sit at the meeting with Carter. But we were to say nothing unless Carter spoke to us. If that happened, we were not to mention our recommendations on Brzezinski. If we did that, we would both be fired instantly.  That would have meant the end of Vernamonti’s airforce career."

4 comments:

edutcher said...

Brezhinsky was David Rockefeller's man, he was there to make sure Bucketmouth did what the guy who bought him the Presidency wanted.

Not that Bucketmouth didn't think along the same lines, too.

deborah said...

Bucketmouth:) That's a new one on me.

rcommal said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG5PQuW6oo

Who's most culpable, who's most responsible?

And who fucked up what?


rcommal said...

edutcher continues to be a half-assed educator, oh by the way;--that said: I've given up calling out those who want to move in that way. At the end of the day, every one, individually, gets to dance in his or her own way and follow whomever each and every one desires to follow. I mean, that's how life works.

Truth: innit?