Interview with former US National Security Chief, Zbigniew Brzezinski
‘Le Nouvel Observateur’ (France) Jan 15 1998 re support for ‘mujahideen’ in late seventies/eighties Afghanistan after Reagan declared them ‘the moral equivalent of America’s founding fathers’.
(Could of course be Blair/Bush/Sarkozy being interviewed about their policy re Iraq, Libya, Syria, where the answer would be they were supporting ‘ freedom-loving democrats’ against ‘evil dictators’)
Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
3 years later came 9.11.
I wish the West had never got involved in ANY of these conflicts. The Afghan Army would have won the war against the fundamentalists in the Seventies, the jihadi ideology would have been defeated there, the Russians would never have come into Afghanistan, the Afghan, Iraqi, Libyan, and Syrian people would have been left to sort out their own internal affairs and, 37 years later, innocent people would not be grieving in foreign capitals.
John Baine
