Grand Alliance, Anyone?
Zbigniew Brzezinksi spanks Bush and Kerry regarding Iraq. Brzezinksi tells us we need to "confront" Europeans with "strategic options" and we must convince them:
Professor Jacob Burckhardt's Judgment on History and Historians should be required reading for all pundits. He discussed the bloody struggle by the State, Culture, and Religion for primacy in Western civilization. In the 14 centuries of Islamic civilization, they have not resolved Burckhardt's conflict.
Brzezinksi tells us we can "influence" the outcome of a Muslim "civil war" by: (1) the Grand Alliance issuing a "joint statement" on solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, (2) Europeans, including French and Germans, would provide "substantial financial contribution to the recovery of Iraq" and deploy troops in Iraq to reduce American presence, and (3) have "exploratory discussions on regional security issues" with Iran. (Is that a plan, or did I miss something?)
What happened with the 1993 Oslo Accords? 1995 Oslo 2? 1998 Wye River? or President Clinton's "Hail Mary, Nobel Prize" summit pass that Arafat bungled, before the Palestinians launched the intafada that continues today? (ZB has been smokin' a joint if he believes a "joint statement" is a magical incantation?)
Are we to believe the Muslim world has forgotten how the West carved up their land when their Turkish masters were defeated in World War I?
Are we to believe that Iran will not be consumed by the "eventual" civil war that Brzezinksi tells us is coming?
Does he helieve Iranian leaders do not understand the dangers they face from within and they'll be deceived by our "exploratory" talks to take weapons from them they believe they should possess?
In short, Brzenzksi tells us our great worry is not a "clash" of Western and Islamic civilizations, for he believes we should be concerned with an "eventual" intra-civilizational conflict that Professor Huntington addressed.
Be that as it may, how will a Grand Alliance be any more succesful than the 19th Century alliances that feverishly worked to hold the Ottoman Empire together through their diplomatic palor tricks that Professor AJP Taylor taught us about in The Struggle for Mastery in Europe?
Brzezenksi offers us just so much "three prong" baloney. (Thanks, I'll pass, I'm all full-up on Europeans.)
the best way to influence the eventual outcome of the civil war within Islam is to shape an expanding Grand Alliance (as opposed to a polarizing Holy Alliance) that embraces the Middle East by taking on the region's three most inflammatory and explosive issues: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the mess in Iraq, and the challenge of a restless and potentially dangerous Iran.Civil war within Islam? The sound of that refrains grows ever louder. October 3rd, Thomas "Pecksniff" Friedman appeared on Face the Nation. Friedman stated: "We're going to have a small civil war in Iraq or a big civil war. This is the honest analysis." (Thanks 'Sniff, for clearing that up, since we know you have a tendency to talk-up a bunch of crap, when your mind wanders.)
Professor Jacob Burckhardt's Judgment on History and Historians should be required reading for all pundits. He discussed the bloody struggle by the State, Culture, and Religion for primacy in Western civilization. In the 14 centuries of Islamic civilization, they have not resolved Burckhardt's conflict.
Brzezinksi tells us we can "influence" the outcome of a Muslim "civil war" by: (1) the Grand Alliance issuing a "joint statement" on solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, (2) Europeans, including French and Germans, would provide "substantial financial contribution to the recovery of Iraq" and deploy troops in Iraq to reduce American presence, and (3) have "exploratory discussions on regional security issues" with Iran. (Is that a plan, or did I miss something?)
What happened with the 1993 Oslo Accords? 1995 Oslo 2? 1998 Wye River? or President Clinton's "Hail Mary, Nobel Prize" summit pass that Arafat bungled, before the Palestinians launched the intafada that continues today? (ZB has been smokin' a joint if he believes a "joint statement" is a magical incantation?)
Are we to believe the Muslim world has forgotten how the West carved up their land when their Turkish masters were defeated in World War I?
Are we to believe that Iran will not be consumed by the "eventual" civil war that Brzezinksi tells us is coming?
Does he helieve Iranian leaders do not understand the dangers they face from within and they'll be deceived by our "exploratory" talks to take weapons from them they believe they should possess?
In short, Brzenzksi tells us our great worry is not a "clash" of Western and Islamic civilizations, for he believes we should be concerned with an "eventual" intra-civilizational conflict that Professor Huntington addressed.
Be that as it may, how will a Grand Alliance be any more succesful than the 19th Century alliances that feverishly worked to hold the Ottoman Empire together through their diplomatic palor tricks that Professor AJP Taylor taught us about in The Struggle for Mastery in Europe?
Brzezenksi offers us just so much "three prong" baloney. (Thanks, I'll pass, I'm all full-up on Europeans.)
posted by Tony Harrison at 6:12 AM
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