Thursday, September 10, 2009

Zbigniew Brzezinski Criticizes Obama's Strategy in Afghanistan

It must be getting bad for this administration when Emperor Palpatine a/k/a Zbigniew Brzezinski is talkin' smack to the President. In case you forgot, Dr. Brzezinski was one of Obama's biggest earliest supporters and supported him before many other political figures jumped on board the Obama Express. Brzezinski is singing another tune now and says that the Obama administration is "diddling around" and as a result runs the risk of pushing the United States into a much deeper conflict with the Islamic world.

Despite Obama's oratory about overhauling ties with the Muslim world, the US risks "sliding into a deeper conflict with various segments of the world of Islam," Brzezinski told the London-based Financial Times.

He questioned Obama's approach of sending more troops to Afghanistan, wondering if it suggested the administration envisioned some kind of military victory where there can be none.


Brzezinski said Obama, who is still contemplating strategy and troop numbers for Afghanistan, should have taken such key decisions before now and feared the US was becoming mired in a conflict that also involves Pakistan.

Source: AFP


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