BARACK OBAMA RECEIVES KISS OF DEATH: FORMER JIMMY CARTER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ENDORSES OBAMA OVER CLINTON
According to Bloomberg.com...
"Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most influential foreign-policy experts in the Democratic Party, threw his support behind Barack Obama's presidential candidacy, saying the Illinois senator has a better global grasp than his chief rival, Hillary Clinton. "
Is this the very same man that served as the National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, failed President and homebuilder, the man who personally did more to stimulate the rise of global Islamo-fascism than any politician alive? The very same President who abandoned the men and women serving America in our embassy who were taken hostage by thugs and allegedly masterminded by Iran's current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
"'Obama is clearly more effective and has the upper hand,'' Brzezinski, who was President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, said. 'He has a sense of what is historically relevant, and what is needed from the United States in relationship to the world.'''
Is this more of the same crap he told Carter while the hostages remained rotting for 444 days and until Ronald Reagan resolved the issue a few minutes after being sworn-in as Carter's successor?
According to William J. Daugherty (Center for the Study of Intelligence , Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D. C. 20505) who was one of the hostages held in the Embassy...
"When the Embassy began reporting these events and citing growing indications that perhaps the Shah's grip was slipping, Dr. Brzezinski, and, by extension the President, became critical of the Embassy's reporting."
"The incumbent ambassador was replaced with William Sullivan, an experienced Foreign Service Officer (FSO) who had a reputation for dealing effectively with difficult situations. Sullivan's marching orders were to go to Tehran, put a lid on the unwelcome reporting, and get things back on track."
"But it soon became clear to him that Iran was in serious trouble, and with it the Shah's future. Dr. Brzezinski, meanwhile, seemed to be increasingly disregarding the information coming out of the Embassy because it did not conform to his strategic plans for Iran and the regional role the country was to play."
"During the summer of 1979, Brzezinski's and State's basic reactions were to listen to Bazargan and to ignore the radicals, even though Laingen--while noting that the situation was becoming calmer--continued to warn of dangers to US personnel."
Daugherty's fascinating first-person narrative on the Embassy hostage crisis can be found here.
According to another work, authored by Robert Spencer writing for WorldNetDaily.com, and which can be found here, quoting Steven F. Hayward's book, "The Real Jimmy Carter"...
"Manifesting the same misunderstanding of the real nature of Islamic radicalism that still dogs the State Department and other agencies today, Brzezinski embarked on a plan to strengthen Islamic radicalism for the geopolitical ends of the day. According to political analysts and Iran experts Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi and Elio Bonazzi, Brzezinski "instituted a plan to train fundamentalist Afghan Islamic mujahedeen fighters in Pakistan under CIA supervision" – for which Carter's successor Ronald Reagan is often blamed."
"Zand-Bonazzi and Bonazzi also point out that 'the other major Islamist terrorist force active today is also the product of misguided policies of the Carter administration, which deliberately destroyed the Shah of Iran and allowed the Islamic Revolution to take place. Hamas and Hezbollah are direct emanations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans (recall the 1984 attacks on the U.S. embassy and the Marine barracks in Beirut) and Israelis.' Although Hamas and Hezbollah existed before Khomeini, he was instrumental in their becoming and remaining significant forces."
"And Khomeini owed his own political life to Carter. As the peanut president himself put it when Pahlavi made a final appeal for help to regain his throne in February 1979, 'F--k the Shah.'"
And this is the guy who failed to successfully curtail, circumvent and mitigate one of the greatest political, military and religious threats of modern times. His endorsement of Obama is, at least for me, the kiss of death. The mere thought that this person could influence any government decision now or in the future is appalling and is enough for me to write off Obama as a serious contender for the office of the President of the United States. We do not need another moralist like Carter to further muck-up U.S. foreign policy.
What can YOU do?
Ignore Obama and support someone who has the best interests of the United States in mind and is capable of choosing advisors who, unlike Brzezinski, are competent players on a national stage.
Consider that Democrats have traditionally been weak on national defense and have failed to reject the far-left socialists, Marxists, communists and others who have attempted to take over the once-honorable party. With the sole exception of Joseph Lieberman, there is no member of the Democratic party that I would trust with the great power that it would take to defend America from its enemies, both foreign and domestic.
-- steve
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