National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s covert anti-Soviet Afghanistan policy in the Carter administration was to create the USSR’s own Vietnam-like quagmire, leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was followed up and expanded by Ronald Reagan and CIA director William Casey. This was all part of the “arc of crisis” strategy conceived decades earlier and aggressively followed through by Brzezinski. This strategy, particularly after 9/11, took a serious detour. Two seminal books which focused upon this background are Robert Dreyfuss, Devil’s Game: How the United States Help Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, published in 2005, and Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, L’Empire … Continue reading “Ancient History”