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Zbigniew Brzezinski: (“The Grand Chessboard”)
“How America ‘manages’ Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent. About 75 per cent of the world’s people live in Eurasia, and most of the world’s physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world’s GNP and about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources.” (p.31)
“…To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” (p.40)
“It follows that America’s primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.” (p.148)
“America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe’s central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America’s global primacy and to America’s historical legacy.” (p.194)
John Bolton and Adolf Hitler on the U.N. and multilateralism:
“In our view, the times when there was no ‘League of Nations’ were far more honorable and more humane.” — Adolf Hitler, Munich speech, April 13, 1923
“The League of Nations has never been a real league of peoples. A number of great nations do not belong to it or have left it” — Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech, January 30, 1937
“The League of Nations was not an instrument of a just policy of understanding among nations, but is and was a guarantee of the meanest dictation man ever invented.” — Adolf Hitler, Wilhelmshaven speech, April 1, 1939
“There’s no such thing as the United Nations, if 10 floors of the 38-story UN headquarters building were eliminated, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” — John Bolton, 1994 Federalist Society speech
“Being practical, Americans say that either we need to fix the institution or we’ll turn to some other mechanism to solve international problems.” — John Bolton, Jesse Helms Lecture Series, Wingate University, November 14, 2005
Madeleine Albright (Colin Powell with Joseph Persico, My American Journey (NY, 1995), p. 576)
What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?
Powell noted that “I thought I would have an aneurysm, American GIs were not toy soldiers to be moved around on some sort of global game board.”
Madeleine Albright (NBC “Today” show, February 19, 1998)
If we have to use force, it is because we are America! We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall, and we see further into the future.
Madeleine Albright (60 Minutes, May 12, 1996, on whether the death of half a million Iraqi children was “worth it.”)
I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.
