China Confidential

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War.

-Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, defending his covert backing for Islamist warlords in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion of that country. Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998

It is not in America's interest to perpetuate Amercan-Iranian hostility. Any eventual reconciliation should be based on the recognition of a mutual strategic interest in stabilizing what currently is a very volatile regional environment for Iran. Admit tedly, any such reconciliation must be pursued by both sides and is not a favor granted by one to the other. A strong, even religiously motivated but not fanatically anti-Western Iran is in the U.S. interest, and ultimately even the Iranian political elite may recognize that reality. In the meantime, American long-range interests in Eurasia would be better served by abandoning existing U.S. objections to closer Turkish-Iranian economic cooperation...

-Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard (1997)

Zbigniew Brzezinski sees U.S. President Barack Obama as "our Muslim," according to Washington insiders familiar with Brzezinski's thinking.

Sources say the Polish-born political scientist, who, as National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, engineered the anti-Soviet, covert U.S. intervention in Afghanistan on the side of Islamist warlords and drug dealers, believes the United States is locked in a Great Game-like competition with Russia for control of "Eurasia," and Islam is the key to victory. Hence, the need for outreach to and elevation of "the Muslim world," in Brzezinski's view, and abandonment of Israel, whose existence, Brzezinski claims, has been a source of instability in the Middle East and a wedge dividing Washington from the region's Muslim populations.