382 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographywould significantly increase the flow of Iranian energy to the world market. Americans doubtless
would prefer to pay less for filling their gas tanks than having to pay much more to finance a wider
conflict in the Persian Gulf.’ (Zbigniew Brzezinski and William Odom, “A Sensible Path on Iran,”
Washington Post, May 27, 2008, emphasis added) Shortly after this was published, Odom died.
GENERAL WILLIAM ODOM, ZBIG’S NSC ASSISTANT AND OBAMA BACKER
A word about Brzezinski’s co-author in the case of this article may be in order. Zbigniew
Brzezinski wrote in his memoir, Power and Principle, that he had been a sponsor of the career of
William Odom starting more than three decades ago. Here is Zbig wrote: “... I wanted on the NSC
staff some individuals who shared my broad strategic perspectives, and who could undertake the
needed review of our military doctrine, of our basic assumptions about global power, and thus help
to define new longer-range goals for the United States. Given the centrality of this undertaking, it
was important that the staffers involved share some of my basic assumptions and be congenial to
me personally. With this thought in mind, I recruited Colonel William Odom, who later became a
general while on the NSC staff, from the US military Academy at West Point. I knew him from an
earlier association with me at the research Institute on International Change at Columbia, I
respected his views on Soviet military affairs and strategy, and I considered him to be an innovative
strategic thinker.” (Power and Principle 75 ) Odom was a ghoulish technocrat of thermonuclear war
who later was promoted to be the head of the National Security Agency, the center for electronic
espionage. Like many other profoundly reactionary imperialist thinkers, Odom was able to reinvent
himself and refurbish himself for a the new Obama era of left cover world strategy à la Carter by the
simple expedient of declaring himself opposed to the Iraq war as it has been carried out, and to
George Bush personally — both very safe, low risk bets in today’s Washington. Predictably,
however, Odom became the darling of the left liberal antiwar set who swoon when they think of the
respectability to be gained by the fact that General Odom shares some of their most obvious
opinions.
BRZEZINSKI TRILATERALS PURGE THE US AIR FORCE
On June 6, 2008 the Trilateral faction flexed its muscles, ousting the top civilian and military
personnel of the US Air Force, who were too close to the neocons to be trusted to carry out
Brzezinski’s orders in the new phase. This extraordinary simultaneous ouster of the Secretary of the
Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff, followed by the naming of Trilateral Commissioner and
Carter administration veteran James Rodney Schlesinger to purge USAF generals and colonels,
dramatically documented the fact that power in Washington DC was no long in the hands of the
Bush-Cheney-neocon clique, but had passed to the Brzezinski-Trilateral faction.
PRINCIPALS’ COMMITTEE RULES WASHINGTON; BUSH-CHENEY OUT
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the firing of Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne
and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley, citing the failure of the Air Force to
maintain the security of strategic nuclear forces, as shown in the infamous rogue B-52 incident of
late August 2007, when a B-52 intercontinental strategic bomber with six nuclear armed cruise
missiles, hijacked by the Cheney clique, flew from North Dakota to Louisiana totally outside of the
purview of the USAF command control and communications systems. Gates, we recall, had been
Brzezinski’s office boy at the NSC between 1977 and 1979.Gates also mentioned that four high-
tech electrical nosecone fuses for Minuteman nuclear warheads were sent to Taiwan in place of