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Does the World Want America to Leave Iraq? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--''WINNING'' IN IRAQ |
| Author: Dmitry Shlapentokh |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,922 Words, 12,106 Characters |
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In October 2005, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser under President Carter and a prominent and influential scholar, published an article in The Los Angeles Times in which he blasted President Bush with the vigor he previously used to attack the totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union. The target of his criticism was the Iraq war. In Brzezinski's view, the war has brought the USA all sorts of disasters: It has drained the treasury, he said, and is responsible for America's failure to invest in education or to maintain competitiveness.
According to Brzezinski, the war is implicitly connected with America's economic problems. But the most important and most disastrous repercussion, he said, is that, because of the war, America is hated globally. In fact, he continued, e...
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... actions for the U.S. and even more for global stability.
Ultimately, the shortcomings of Brzezinski's analysis reflect a much more serious problem. They are a sign of Americans' desire for self-deception, and of the irrationality of a considerable segment of the public who want to change everything without actually changing anything in the country's political, social, and economic make-up.
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