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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49320)10/24/2005 4:10:22 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Oversimplification of history by Zbigniew Brzezinski?
Oct 23, 2005
Iqbal Latif Paris, Persian Journal

An open answer to..Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Bush
suicidal statecraft... the ultimate cause of imperial collapse."



Oversimplification of history is the hallmark of people like Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. national security advisor. Quoting Arnold Toynbee, he accuses the Bush administration of "Bush suicidal statecraft... the ultimate cause of imperial collapse". In "THE IRAQ WAR," Bill Bonner picks on Bush and quotes as a reinforcement of his argument the recent speech of Harold Pinter, yesterday's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Most of these quotations are out context and examples of great acts of intellectual dishonesty. "Every great empire - from the Assyrians to the Mongols to the British had taken Baghdad. America had to do it too." Perhaps Bill Bonner and Pinter failed to notice that neither the Mongols nor the Assyrians or the British could pull off elections in Iraq. Mongols were busy burning Baghdad and creating mountains of chopped heads. Rolling the caliph in a carpet so as to avoid the shedding of holy blood in the caliph's palace was the best Mongols did. Neither did they bring the Caliph of Islam to face a panel of judges; he was rolled up in the carpet and barbarically killed....contd

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