Zbigniew Brezezinski

Zbigniew Brezezinski was onder president Jimmy Carter de National Security Adviseur. Hij is een geschoold geopolitiek denker, bekend ook van het fascinerende 'The Grand Chessboard,' waarin hij de strategische belangen van de Verenigde Staten beschrijft. Geen poldermodeldenken, maar de gedachtenwereld van een beleidsmaker in een imperium. Information Clearing House heeft een recent essay van hem overgenomen: 'The Dilemma Of The Last Sovereign. America needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that the world’s population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power... merica’s military action against Iraq and its less dramatic but also largely solitary stance on the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Treaty were striking assertions of the unique status of the United States as the last truly sovereign state. These steps and others like them reflect, especially after 9/11, the deep conviction of the Bush Administration that to protect America’s national interest the United States must have a free hand: The sovereign Gulliver must not be tied down by feckless Lilliputians. America’s post-9/11 political rhetoric and the related strategic reorientation involve a sharp break with five decades of bipartisanship in the shaping of U.S. global policy. Though a few leading Democrats were outspoken in their criticisms of the Administration’s formulations, the predominant inclination in the Democratic foreign policy establishment has been to tacitly accept the new strategic premises of the Bush worldview, and some Democratic leaders initially even acted as its cheerleaders. As a result, most Democratic foreign policy prescriptions acquired a “Bush lite” taste.' Lees verder: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12243.htm