Purpose of the trilateral commission: a "New International Economic Order" The concept of the nation-state was outdated and we were moving into an era of "interdependence."
Oprichter Brezinsky: "...the reality of our times is that a modern society such as the U.S. needs a central coordinating and renovating organ which cannot be made up of six hundred people."
"the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."
Machiavellisme is interessant. Centralisering van macht brengt echter altijd beperking van individuele vrijheden met zich mee.
De trilaterals zijn een grote leverancier van "globale" denkers voor de Amerkaanse politiek. George Bush sr (eerste golf oorlog) en Clinton (NAFTA) zijn hier de bekendste voorbeelden. Elke regering sinds de oprichting in 1973 telt leden van de TC. Republikeins of Democratisch doet dus niet ter zake. De agenda staat centraal bij de recrutering. Niet de kleur.
Obama heeft verklaard dat Zbigniev Brezinsky zijn grote leermeester is.
Nou, noem een oorlog in de laaste 40 jaar, of hij heeft 'm ontworpen. In ieder geval strategisch en vaak tactisch.
Zijn meisterstuck is de lokvogel die de Sovjets Afghanistan inlokte, Interview Brezinsky:
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [From the Shadows
], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [intigrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
