Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

Good text. This I question

But they lamented how it had been wasted on Iraq, instead of being carefully nurtured for what could be far more threatening crises in the same neighborhood before 2010.

Here they speak only of a nuclear crisis. Why was Iran targeted before it became a nuclear threat?

A quick perusal of Brzezinski’s chessboard will confirm that the United States is indeed following his game plan. We have taken over Ukraine, attempted to take over Azerbaijan as witnessed in their recent election, but failed, we have pulled off a revolution in Kyrgyzstan and attempted a takeover in Uzbekistan. We have a candidate in waiting in Kazakhstan. My point is we are playing his game. The game rules were published in 1997. Before Iran became a nuclear threat Iran was targeted. Brzezinski states we must keep China from controlling the oil or gas. A more recent development tells of a second phase in the Iran-China strategic energy cooperation which will involve constructing a pipeline in Iran to take oil some 386 kilometers to the Caspian Sea, there to link up with the planned pipeline from China into Kazakhstan. It is more imperative than ever that we stop Iran according to the Chessboard.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GL21Ad01.html

The Grand Chessboard – 1997
Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and China as the two most important countries - almost but not quite superpowers - whose interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central Asia. Of the two, Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious threat. Both nations border Central Asia. In a lesser context he describes the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as essential "lesser" nations that must be managed by the U.S. as buffers or counterweights to Russian and Chinese moves to control the oil, gas and minerals of the Central Asian Republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan).
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:wDuUmiut7n8J:www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html+Brzezi....

http://book-case.kroupnov.ru/pages/library/Grand/part_2.htm