Friday, January 12, 2007
Brzezinski on Bush on Iraq
Zbigniew Brzezinski doesn't like much about the President's "new way forward" in Iraq. Here's what he sees as the big picture screw-up:
The [January 10] speech reflects a profound misunderstanding of our era. America is acting like a colonial power in Iraq. But the age of colonialism is over. Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating. That is the fatal flaw of Bush's policy.
Read the whole thing for some of the rather damning details.