Afghan Islamism Was Made in Washington
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser in 'Le Nouvel Observateur' (France), Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76
Translated by Bill Blum
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couple of thoughts about the Brzezinski interview below. First, it
flatly contradicts the common justification for U.S. actions in
Afghanistan during the 1980s: that the U.S. simply aided forces
resisting Soviet imperialism. Brzezinski makes clear that the
Soviets were baited into sending forces to Afghanistan; thus their
actions were defensive. Moreover, the U.S. used the violent
Wahhabi (Saudi Arabian) form of Islam to create a monster-movement
which plagues the world today. For more on this, see 'Articles
Documenting U.S. Creation of Taliban and bin Laden's Terrorist
Network' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/doc.htm
(1) A reader wrote: "Similarly just because Brzezinski (among others) likes to claim that he personally overthrew the Soviet Union doesn't mean that you or the rest of us have to take him seriously. Nobody in 1979 had any reason to think that the Afghan war would bring down the USSR. Nor have we any real reason to think that it did bring it down." The point is well taken at least as regards Brzezinski's claim that his Afghan strategy destroyed the Soviet Union. But the issue here is a different one: what role did the U.S. government play in the creation of Islamist terrorism? In that regard, Brzezinski's assertion that the U.S. provoked Soviet actions and that Islamism was deliberately fostered is backed up by sources on all sides of the Afghan issue. Here's the interview. -- Emperor's Clothes *** Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct? |
Brzezinski: Yes. 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. But the reality, secretly
guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3,
1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid
to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day,
I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my
opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But
perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to
provoke it?
B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but
we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that
they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United
States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was
a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had
the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want
me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the
border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of
giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. 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.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic
fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or
the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the
liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic
fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to
Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. 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. But what is there in
common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan
militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing
more than what unites the Christian countries.
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Note: There are at least two editions of 'Le Nouvel Observateur.' With
apparently the sole exception of the Library of Congress, the version
sent to the United States is shorter than the French version. The
Brzezinski interview was not included in the shorter version. *
Translated from the French by Bill Blum, author of "Killing Hope: US
Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II" and "Rogue State: A
Guide to the World's Only Superpower" Portions of the books can be
read at:
http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm
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Further Reading
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Brzezinski is very much a part of the U.S. foreign policy
establishment today, and the strategy he helped develop is crucial to
U.S. government actions today. See:
a.. 'Why Washington Wants Afghanistan' by Jared Israel, Rick Rozoff &
Nico Varkevisser at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm
a.. 'NATO Buildup in the Balkans: Part of a Deadly Game' by Jared
Israel at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/farish.htm
a.. 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and Trying to Force Milosevic
to Surrender?' By Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
Footnotes:
(1) More on Islamism can be studied on this website about "The Muslim Brotherhood: The Globalists' Secret Weapon"
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