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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.
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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.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski
I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
Written by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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