But Brzezinski wants to see the United States continue its imperial ways. He is the author of a book called "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives":
...it is correct to assert that America has become, as President Clinton put it, the world's "indispensible nation."...Without sustained and directed American involvement, before long, the forces of global disorder could come to dominate the world scene. And the possibility of such a fragmentation is inherent in the geopolitical tensions not only of today's Eurasia but of the world more generally.22
Indispensible nation? Does this mean that some nations are dispensible? Who gets to make that determination and on what basis can it be made? And what does he mean by forces of global disorder? Terrorists, or people who want self-determination rather than the dictates of the United States or the New World Order?
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitrating role.23
Is there any wonder some people have resorted to terrorism in the face of this appalling imperial hubris?
ElSeven years later, we see in the Democratic Party platform a section bearing Zbig's imprint. It is titled: Lead in Asia
...We will encourage China to play a responsible role as a growing power-to help lead in addressing the common problems of the 21st century. 24
The Chinese have the world's largest population, a 5,000-year-old culture, nuclear weapons and a trade surplus with the US that reached $75.3 billion dollars in the first half of 2008.25 That statement in the platform treats China like a junior partner in an American enterprise. Given the trade surplus and the fact that the United States depends on China to buy much of its government debt, such an attitude is presumptuous and patronizing in the absurd. But it also represents the Post WWII American exceptionalism that the stock-in-trade for people such as Brzezinski.
Brzezinski's views on democracy and empire are downright scary:
A genuinely populist democracy has never before attained international supremacy. The pursuit of power and especially the economic costs and human sacrifice that the exercise of such power often requires are not generally congenial to democratic instincts. Democratization is inimical to imperial mobilization. 26 (emphasis mine).
Is Is that why the Constitution has gone into to shredder over the past eight years?
And:
Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. (emphasis mine)27
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