Zbig Brzezinski: Shoot Down Israeli Planes if They Attack Iran
Former Carter security advisor and Obama backer Zbig Brzezinski has urged Obama to shoot at Israeli planes if they attack Iran.
First Publish: 9/21/2009, 7:05 AM / Last Update: 9/21/2009, 8:02 AM
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who enthusiastically campaigned for U.S. President Barack Obama, has called on the president to shoot down Israeli planes if they attack
Iran. “They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to
sit there and watch?” said the former national security advisor to
former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in an interview with the Daily Beast.
Brzezinski, who served in the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981,
is currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins
University's School of Advanced International Studies in Maryland.
“We
have to be serious about denying them that right,” he said. “If they
fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning
back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a 'Liberty' in reverse.’" Israel mistakenly attacked the American Liberty ship during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Brzezinski
was a top candidate to become an official advisor to President Obama,
but he was downgraded after Republican and pro-Israel Democratic charges
during the campaign that Brzezinski’s anti-Israel attitude would damage
Obama at the polls.
President Obama’s advisors have
emphasized that the former national security advisor is not playing any
unofficial role as advisor to the White House.
His
enthusiasm for President Obama has waned in the past several months. He
recently told a London-based newspaper that the United States may be
"sliding into a deeper conflict with various segments of the world of
Islam ” because of the president’s failure to carry out his promises to
the Muslim world.
Brzezinski said the
Obama administration is "diddling around" in trying to reach an “evasive
compromise” between Israel and the Arab world.
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