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Your story on Zbigniew Brzezinski's Harvard speech of Feb. 19 gives the impression, perhaps unintentionally, that he offered a reasonable case for the current Carter doctrine on foreign policy and received no disagreement. This is an incorrect and dangerous impression...
...laughter when host Samuel Huntington stated that the purpose of the lecture series was to promote international harmony and peace. Those questioners who were allowed to speak made rather timid objections, but one did manage to question the wisdom of supporting repressive dictatorships in opposing Communism. In his answer, Brzezinski exposed a crucial flaw in his theory: he stated that it does not really matter what happens to the people of Pakistan, as long as the structure of anti-Communist alliances is strong...
...Carter entered office auspiciously ignorant of foreign policy, and we can only assume Brzezinski's advice produced such evasion. It follows a pattern of ignoring all root causes which would embarrass the U.S., but delving deep into the writings of Marx and Engels in order to reach negative conclusions about any Soviet moves, straining to ignore any defensive motives they may have. Soviet troops never waged war beyond their borders without a rational defensive purpose--which is not, of course, to imply a moral right--until their Afghanistan foray; therefore it would be logical to inquire whether some defensive purpose...
...such admissions of American guilt or provocation, even the much more destructive episode in Viet Nam or Nixon's tilt toward Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, are not part of Brzezinski's scheme. Nor does he take into account widespread American economic imperialism, often depriving Third World peasants even of the very soil under their feet (see Food First,) by Lappe and Collins). All evil is from the Soviet camp, he argues. Therefore he will not apologize to Iran even for the sake of 50 American lives; and when I asked him why not, after his talk, he cited...
Nobody seemed to realize that to send Ali to Africa at a time when diplomatic heavyweights like Zbigniew Brzezinski and Clark Clifford were pleading the U.S. cause in the Middle East and India would be seen as a racial insult...