HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ---------------------------Rereading bits and pieces of Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" I came across the following quote that struck me as particularly important in light of the recent controversy over the Benes Decrees in Central Europe. The passage also reminded me of Rick's recent message regarding collusion between the USA and Germany. In fact the following quote is within the context of a broader discussion of how the US-German and the German-French relationship plays-out to the benefit of all parties. The striking passage however - especially for its similarity to German militarist ideology and within the current context were the "human rights" of German colonists in eastern Europe is on the agenda again - is the following:
"On the map of Europe, THE ZONE OF GERMAN SPECIAL INTEREST could be sketched in the shape of an oblong, in the West including of course France and in the East spanning the newly emancipated post-Communist states of CENTRAL EUROPE, INCLUDING THE BALTIC REPUBLICS, EMBRACING UKRAINE AND BELARUS, AND REACHING INTO RUSSIA" At this point Zbig directs us to a map of this zone, which, in addition to the countries already mentioned also includes parts of Spain, the Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Romania, northern Serbia (aka Vojvodina), central Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, northern Italy, Switzerland, etc. What is interesting is that Montenegro, Kosovo, southern Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey (the so-called "Southern Balkans") are left out of this zone. However, more ominous is what follows in light of the BENES DECREE controversy:
"In many respects, that zone corresponds to the historical radius of CONSTRUCTIVE GERMAN CULTURAL INFLUENCE, CARVED OUT IN THE PRENATIONALIST ERA BY GERMAN URBAN AND AGRICULTURAL COLONISTS in East Central Europe and in the Baltic republics, ALL OF WHOM WERE WIPED OUT IN THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II." (p.69)
This of course falls squarely in line with the part in the introduction where Zbig puts America's role in the future squarely in line with that of the mission Hitler undertook.
Similarly, although only tangentially related to the above point, I found the following quote in a 1996 booklet entitled "Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The US Leadership Challenge", where the importance of Bosnia for the US's post-Cold War eminance is clearly indicated (the book was published by the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies and was a brain-child of non-other than good ol' Zbig, along with a number of his other CFR and Trilateral budies). The book was a "consensus document" that represented a two-year bipartisan effort to find agreement on key areas of US foreign policy in the 21st century. Here's the opening lines:
"For unto whomsoever much is given,
of him shall much be required.
- LUKE 12:48
Tomorrow is ours to shape. More than any time in its past, the United States is strongly positioned to influence the kind of world it would like to see unfold. Glbally it is without peer in each of the categories by which one customarily measures international influence: political ideals, cultural resonance, economic strenght, and military power. But capitalizing on all this assumes a willingness to do so. As the last presidential and congressional elections seemed to suggest, we as a people have assumed a greater ambivalence toward our international responsibilities. In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, for example, we bagan looking to others to pick up the burdens of global leadership. As the rest of the world recognizes, though, and AS THE DAYTON BREAKTHROUGH ON BOSNIA CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED, THERE IS NO ONE ELSE."
Anyway the booklet reads like a blue-print for the second Clinton Presidency and the current administration of "Dubbya". I highly recomend it to everyone for its blunt language and non-hypocritcal fort-righteness.
cheers!
Kole
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