05-28-2017, 07:10 PM
(05-28-2017, 02:18 AM)Galen Wrote:(05-27-2017, 06:49 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Zbigniew Brzezinski. I'll miss his generally-wise commentary.
You do realize that it was his ideas about Afghanistan in the wake of the Soviet occupation that led to our current situation with Al-Qaeda and ISIS. He was as much of a destructive asshole as Kissinger was for pretty much the same reasons.
Unintended consequences can be horrible. Malign intent can do incomparably worse.
If you want to push culpability back, then you can blame the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.