Sunday, May 21, 2006

Brzezinski: Military Option not a Profitable Course of Action | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 19.05.2006

Not profitable?

Hell, it's insane!

Brzezinski: Military Option not a Profitable Course of Action Europe Deutsche Welle 19.05.2006:

"DW-WORLD: The Iranian President Ahmadinejad has ridiculed the European offer to provide a light-water reactor as an incentive to freeze uranium enrichment. Has diplomacy failed?

Zbigniew Brzezinski: One has to recognize that when one says President Ahmadinejad, one is using the title of president which means something entirely different in the West from what it means in the Iranian system. President Ahmadinejad is not the President of Iran in the sense that the President of the US is Mr. Bush, and the President of France is Mr. Chirac.

The position of the president in Iran is roughly a third-level position. His executive powers are quite limited.

What the West has done, and what the US in part has done, is to elevate him into an interlocutor, who then uses the debate with the West to enhance his domestic political power. So I don't consider his responses to be authoritative."
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