392 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographycongeries of warlords and petty states, all absolutely impotent to resist the Anglo-Americans. That
would give London and Washington another century of world domination. Brzezinski would always
claim that his intention was to accomplish all this using proxies, surrogates, and pawns, and without
embroiling the US in war with Russia and China. His approach had all the defects of the old
Cliveden set of the 1930s, who were convinced that they could build up Hitler, turn him east, play
him against Stalin, and destroy both Germany and the USSR in the process. Unfortunately, they had
been too clever by half, and their plan had blown up in their faces when Hitler turned west before
going east.
That had been World War II. Now, it was clear that Brzezinski’s fantastic strategy was also
destined to blow up in his face, and in all our faces. An Obama regime was therefore a probable
one-way ticket to thermonuclear war, an outcome several orders of magnitude worse than anything
the neocons had ever plotted. Brzezinski and his friends were more aggressive, more adventurous,
more intelligent, and more insane than the neocons. The American people, if they succumbed to
Obama, were about to leap out of the frying pan and into the fire.
BRZEZINSKI WARNS OF WORLD WAR IV UNDER MCCAIN
Perhaps responding to criticisms like the ones developed here, Brzezinski has attempted to
refurbish his image as a relative dove. He has warned about the temptation to try to win militarily in
Afghanistan, which is the trap he himself used to destroy the USSR. Brzezinski means to say that
the point of waging war in Afghanistan is not the permanent occupation and subduing of
Afghanistan, but rather using the Afghan war to destroy Pakistan, along with Afghanistan itself.
Above all, Brzezinski wants to avoid being exposed as the most dangerous warmonger of them all,
stating: “Well, if McCain is president and if his Secretary of State is Joe Lieberman and his
Secretary of Defense is [Rudolph] Giuliani, we will be moving towards the World War IV that they
have been both favoring and predicting,” he said, calling that an “appalling concept” (and adding
that by their lights, the Cold War counted as World War III). “So it depends on who are the
principal officers. If it’s [Richard] Armitage, or if it were to be Brent Scowcroft, I think it would be
very different.” Asked who he would like to see in a potential Obama cabinet, Brzezinski said: “I
think [Sen. Chuck] Hagel. I would like to see a bipartisan cabinet. I think we need one very badly
— and we did well in the Cold War when we had one. I would say Hagel and [Sen. Dick] Lugar
would be very good Republicans [for Obama].” He also cited Sen. Joe Biden as a potential
Secretary of State, in which case it would also be possible to “keep [Secretary of Defense Bob]
Gates in the job for a few months.” Brzezinski said such a cabinet would be an important step in
redressing the increased partisanship of foreign affairs in recent years, adding: “I think there is a
tendency, because of the very complexity of the issues, for solutions to become polarized and more
extreme. ... Republicans move toward neocon-ish formulas, and Democrats [follow] idealistically
escapist formulas. In either case you don’t end up with the necessary mix of idealism and
realism.”^216 In other words, we need a united oligarchy in order to guarantee another century of
empire. It is the neocon project of world domination, in a form that is more clever and more insane
at the same time.