Brzezinski (Jan 1998) Le Nouvel Observateur Interview (Annotated)
- 7 years ago
This video commemorates the death of Zbigniew Brzezinski, by referring to one of the important US foreign policy issues in which he played a big part - Afghanistan.
Video contents:
The original French version of the 1998 interview appeared in "Les Révélations d'un Ancien Conseilleur de Carter: ‘Oui, la CIA est Entrée en Afghanistan avant les Russes...’ in "Le Nouvel Observateur" [Paris], January 15-21, 1998, p. 76. Original French text at http://www.voltairenet.org/article165889.html
Translated from the French by William Blum and David N. Gibbs. This translation was published in Gibbs, "Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Retrospect," International Politics 37, no. 2, 2000, pp. 241-242. Full text at http://dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/files/afghan-ip.pdf
Sound:
- America The Beautiful: Christopher W French (Public domain) http://www.rhythmontherock.com/america_the_beautiful.html
- Funeral March: Chopin from https://youtu.be/47qUk8B1A3s
Images:
- “Mujahedin in 1984”
Image: http://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_sovietunion-afghanistan-muj.jpg.jpg
- “National Security Advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski meets with US
President Jimmy Carter January 21, 1977”
Image: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/390067-brzezinski-afghanistan-ussr-cold-war/
- “After a diagram in Mohammad Yousaf, Mark Adkin: Afghanistan – The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower. Casemate 2001”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Afghanistankrieg-Ressourcen.svg
- “US-Map of Soviet Invasion in Afghanistan”
ImageMo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:SovietInvasionAfghanistanMap.png
- “Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Highlands near Kabul, 1986.”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:Afgan30mmAutoMinomet.jpg
- “Soviet paratroopers aboard a BMD-1 in Kabul (1986)”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:BMD-1_in_Afghanistan.jpg
- Woman grieving at grave (DoD 1984)
Image: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45480000/jpg/_45480304_cemetery_afp466b.jpg
- The fall of the Berlin Wall
(Euro date 9 11 1989)
Image: https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/images/56-4001989-14470729306dd6cc1440b049b99b1fdc476571ed6d.jpg
Related sites:
- "Bitter Lake" - video by Adam Curtis. (Jan 2015) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4393514/) Partial cut at https://youtu.be/nvyeWaVMDrI
Note the themes of initial US "innocence" (or naivety) and "the Russians did it" theme starting around 21:00.
Video contents:
The original French version of the 1998 interview appeared in "Les Révélations d'un Ancien Conseilleur de Carter: ‘Oui, la CIA est Entrée en Afghanistan avant les Russes...’ in "Le Nouvel Observateur" [Paris], January 15-21, 1998, p. 76. Original French text at http://www.voltairenet.org/article165889.html
Translated from the French by William Blum and David N. Gibbs. This translation was published in Gibbs, "Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Retrospect," International Politics 37, no. 2, 2000, pp. 241-242. Full text at http://dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/files/afghan-ip.pdf
Sound:
- America The Beautiful: Christopher W French (Public domain) http://www.rhythmontherock.com/america_the_beautiful.html
- Funeral March: Chopin from https://youtu.be/47qUk8B1A3s
Images:
- “Mujahedin in 1984”
Image: http://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_sovietunion-afghanistan-muj.jpg.jpg
- “National Security Advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski meets with US
President Jimmy Carter January 21, 1977”
Image: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/390067-brzezinski-afghanistan-ussr-cold-war/
- “After a diagram in Mohammad Yousaf, Mark Adkin: Afghanistan – The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower. Casemate 2001”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Afghanistankrieg-Ressourcen.svg
- “US-Map of Soviet Invasion in Afghanistan”
ImageMo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:SovietInvasionAfghanistanMap.png
- “Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Highlands near Kabul, 1986.”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:Afgan30mmAutoMinomet.jpg
- “Soviet paratroopers aboard a BMD-1 in Kabul (1986)”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:BMD-1_in_Afghanistan.jpg
- Woman grieving at grave (DoD 1984)
Image: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45480000/jpg/_45480304_cemetery_afp466b.jpg
- The fall of the Berlin Wall
(Euro date 9 11 1989)
Image: https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/images/56-4001989-14470729306dd6cc1440b049b99b1fdc476571ed6d.jpg
Related sites:
- "Bitter Lake" - video by Adam Curtis. (Jan 2015) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4393514/) Partial cut at https://youtu.be/nvyeWaVMDrI
Note the themes of initial US "innocence" (or naivety) and "the Russians did it" theme starting around 21:00.