[Peace-discuss] Obama adviser who brought us Al Qaeda

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Zbigniew Brzezinski was President Carter's National Security Adviser when he 
arranged for the CIA to fund armed religious fanatics and send them into 
Afghanistan (note: before the Soviet invasion) "to give the Russians their own 
Vietnam," as he later bragged to a French magazine.  He justified the plan by 
saying, "What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the 
collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of 
Central Europe and the end of the Cold War."  The stirred-up Muslims came back 
in September 2001 and so became the Obama administration's lying excuse for 
killing people in Afghanistan today in support of its geopolitical goals. --CGE]


	Brzezinski: ‘Hell, There Could Be Even Riots’

Brzezinski fears class warfare.  Not Mika. Zbigniew.  And not 
Barney-Frank-on-Meet-the-Press class warfare.  Real, blood-in-the-streets riots.

Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser expressed his concern about the 
possibility of riots on Morning Joe today.  To stave them off, he proposes the 
creation of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, whose contributors would be 
those who made out very well in recent times.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: You also talked about the possibility of class conflict.

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: I was worrying about it because we’re going to have 
millions and millions of unemployed, people really facing dire straits.  And 
we’re going to be having that for some period of time before things hopefully 
improve. And at the same time there is public awareness of this extraordinary 
wealth that was transferred to a few individuals at levels without historical 
precedent in America . . . And you sort of say to yourself: what’s going to 
happen in this society when these people are without jobs, when their families 
hurt, when they lose their homes, and so forth?

We have the government trying to repair: repair the banking system, to bail the 
housing out.  But what about the rich guys? Where is it?  [What are they] doing?

It sort of struck me, that in 1907, when we had a massive banking crisis, when 
banks were beginning to collapse, there were going to be riots in the streets. 
Some financiers, led by J.P. Morgan, got together.  He locked them in his 
library at one point. He wouldn’t let them out until 4:45 AM, until they all 
kicked in and gave some money to stabilize the banks: there was no Federal 
Reserve at the time.

Where is the monied class today? Why aren’t they doing something: the people who 
made billions, millions.  I’m sort of thinking of Paulson, of Rubin. Why don’t 
they get together, and why don’t they organize a National Solidarity Fund in 
which they call on all of those who made these extraordinary amounts of money to 
kick some back in to [a] National Solidarity Fund?

A bit later, Zbig made his fears explicit.

BRZEZINSKI: And if we don’t get some sort of voluntary National Solidarity Fund, 
at some point there’ll be such political pressure that Congress will start 
getting in the act, there’s going to be growing conflict between the classes and 
if people are unemployed and really hurting, hell, there could be even riots!

Note: This might have been Zbig’s first Morning Joe appearance since he 
sneeringly dismissed Scarborough as “stunningly superficial.”   Unfortunately, 
from a selfish entertainment-value perspective, there was no renewal of those 
fireworks, all parties being on their best behavior.  Mika, apparently off on 
vacation, is certainly relieved.

http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/02/17/brzezinski-hell-there-could-be-even-riots/