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...legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex challenges has been to divide and conquer them one by one. He is uncomfortable with, and not very adept at, historical generalizations or global grand designs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, on the other hand, is a well-established, if somewhat controversial, geostrategist. He began talking of an "arc of crisis" around the Indian Ocean more than a year ago. He is also an anti-Soviet hard-liner of long standing. But Brzezinski too wanted the Carter Administration to distinguish itself from its predecessors...
...Politburo had decided to teach Carter a lesson in what happens when moralism is pitted against amorality backed up by armor and firepower. Carter was surprised not so much by the invasion of Afghanistan (the National Security Council's Special Coordination Committee, chaired by Brzezinski, had all but predicted the invasion a week in advance); rather, Carter was shocked by the Soviets' duplicity and cynicism in killing their own erstwhile protégé, Hafizullah Amin, branding him a CIA agent, and then claiming that Amin's government had "invited" the invasion...
...Carter Administration will almost certainly continue to pursue human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and curbs on arms sales. But it will now do so, Brzezinski told TIME, "with a more sober realization-which might be salutary-that the Soviets won't be benign partners." Carter's concern with what he has proudly called "global issues" has already been thoroughly institutionalized...
...price of being a public figure is to be pursued by a persistent journalist demanding private interviews for a full personality study. Dare the public figure refuse? Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President's National Security Adviser, tried and got the treatment. Sally Quinn's three-part series in the Washington Post damaged Brzezinski in passing, but it damaged the Post even more. The Post is one of the nation's best papers, though nowadays it often seems excessively bent on topping its Watergate success...
...Henry Kissinger often said, SALT is not a reward for Soviet good behavior; treaties between adversaries can be more useful than treaties between friends; especially in periods of heightened tension between adversaries, treaties can be vital in setting bounds for competition. Kissinger's rival and successor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, echoed that same point last week when he said the U.S. and the Soviet Union need SALT now more than ever...