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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49321)	10/24/2005 4:51:18 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Yesterday hawks are today's doves. iranian.ws A strategy of containment needs a heart of lion and courage to catch the bull by the horn. Political grandstanding on issues that go to the heart of this delicate fulcrum of ‘terrorism’ originating from the hinterland of Islam is irresponsible. Its very initiation is owed to unfortunate impression created by wavering strategic pundits and antiwar lobbies and peaceniks that Americans retreat when body bags come home. From Arafat, Saddam and Laden it has been an established error of judgment that global interests of Americans are tied to the number of casualties they have, they don’t have the stomach to see the things through. In this background the continuation of war on terror on four fronts in Saudia, Iraq Iran and hinterland Pakistan is something unheard off. But in terror war where stakes are so high nothing short will ever work, it is here where part timers who had authorised earlier botched intrusions of sovereign territories without impunity get really upset. To be a hawk is one thing to leave the job halve done, quite another. Zbigniew Brzezinski’s "Bush suicidal statecraft"... the ultimate cause of imperial collapse has to be measured in the following background. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. national security advisor under Carter. He was the infamous ‘hero’ of an era where American diplomats suffered immense humiliation and incarceration for 444 days by the Khomienites. A hawk in his days and a dove out of power, he was the architect of twin failed missions ‘Operation Eagle Claw’ and ‘Credible Sport.’ These were virtual invasions of a sovereign territory without UN sanctions. The shocking part of his analysis is that it comes from someone as hawkish as him, the man who created solidarity and was instrumental behind John Paul 2 papal elections in 1978 according to KGB. In case of Carter as well as Clinton their inherently peaceful temperament led to dillydallying responses to the crises they faced, for 444 days where by Iranian mullahs rubbished the international law and humiliated American diplomats by a callous Ayatollah, the response was the operation ‘Operation Eagle Claw’ that botched wretchedly. USS Cole and Embassies attack led to some mud house and a match factory bombed in Afghanistan and Sudan, most of these attacks were futile. Unseen enemy with a poisonous minds bent to kill has to be followed with equal zeal, no halve measures would be a remedy. Until sanctuaries are denied to these terrorists you end up with hotbeds of terrorism all around. A terrorist on the run and terrorist sitting and planning like a war general is the difference between a successful campaign and an vain effort. Carter’s failure to resolve the ‘diplomat hostages’ crisis ensured Reagan victory. This is a loaded article from a national security adviser who authorised the mission that led to American dead bodies paraded through Tehran during massive street protests, broadcast worldwide. Carter's Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the rescue, resigned. Another democrat Ramsey Clark Johnson Administration Attorney General an antiwar activist — flew to Tehran and participated in a "Crimes of America" trial. The Iranian revolution was the last straw for disintegrating relationship between Vance and Brzezinski. Brzezinski wanted to control the revolution and increasingly suggested military action to prevent Khomeini from coming to power, while Vance wanted to come to terms with the new Khomeini regime. As a consequence Carter failed to develop a coherent approach to the Iranian situation. In the growing crisis atmosphere of 1979 and 1980 due to the Iranian hostage situation, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and a deepening economic crisis, Brzezinski's anti-Soviet views gained influence but could not end the Carter administration's malaise. Vance's resignation following the unsuccessful mission undertaken over his objections to rescue the American hostages in March 1980 was the final result of the deep disagreement between Brzezinski and Vance.