Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017)

[angrysoba]

Damn you, 2017. Yes, this is not a hoax, it seems. Apparently, Zbigniew Brzezinski has died.

Famous for being one of the more hawkish members of the Carter administration.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/zbigniew-brzezinski/528405/?utm_source=atlfb

 

[Childlike Empress]

Why should this be a hoax? The reptile was 89. Good riddance!

 

[Childlike Empress]

Grandfather of ISIS' most famous words

 

[alfaniner]

I always thought he had one of the coolest names in the universe.

 

[ddt]

The bad news is that his even more evil twin is still alive and kicking.

 

[shemp]

The bad news is that his even more evil twin is still alive and kicking.

Donald Trump is his twin?

 

[Wolrab]

Donald Trump is his twin?

Nope. Pelosi. They are fraternal twins.

 

[logger]

A terrible loss for his family, he certainly did his job the way he thought best.

See how that's done leftists?

 

[shemp]

A terrible loss for his family, he certainly did his job the way he thought best.

See how that's done leftists?

OK, let me try:

At least he didn't die like Chuckles the Clown.

Better?

 

[ddt]

Donald Trump is his twin?

No. That was a reference to that other grand old man on American foreign politics, and the biggest mass murderer still alive.

Henry Kissinger.

 

[Childlike Empress]

All his Foreign Affairs essays going back to 1961: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/anthologies/2017-05-27/essays-zbigniew-brzezinski

 

[shemp]

nvrmnd

 

[logger]

OK, let me try:

At least he didn't die like Chuckles the Clown.

Better?

No you've failed again! Shocking!

 

[Childlike Empress]

Interesting read: ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, THE SVENGALI OF JIMMY CARTER’S PRESIDENCY, IS DEAD, BUT THE EVIL LIVES ON

[...] If not for Carter, Brzezinski would have remained the marginal voice he was before and after the four-year Carter term. From the start of that term, in the first six months of 1977, Carter was also warned explicitly by his own staff, inside the White House and working on his confidential instruction, not to allow Brzezinski to dominate his policy-making to the exclusion of all other advice, and the erasure of the evidence on which the advice was based.

I know this because I was a member of the staff in those days. I know because I drafted the terms of a series of staff investigations which Carter requested and then authorized of how the advice he was receiving at his desk was influencing the choices and policy options he had to decide – memoranda from the cabinet departments, briefs from the intelligence agencies, and commentaries from different elements of the White House organization itself. [...]