Brzezinski: Syria strategy is a well-kept secret
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Do you think the Obama administration has a strategy or a grander plan for Syria and its aftermath after military action?
If it does it's a very well-kept secret.
What kind of plan would you want to see?
It seems to me that the problem in the Syrian case is part of a larger dilemma regarding the upheaval in the Middle East. The solution to that upheaval cannot be based entirely on military power nor should it be dependent almost exclusively on the Western powers. I am struck how eager Great Britain and France appear to be in favor of military action. And I am also mindful of the fact that both of these two powers are former imperialist, colonialist powers in that region.
Given the contemporary reality of what I have called in my writings "Global Political Awakening," a policy of force based primarily on Western and in some cases former colonial powers does not seem to me a very promising avenue to an eventual solution to the regional problem.
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To sum it up then, you are currently not convinced that imminent military action against Syria is the right move at this time?
I do not see the larger strategic context for it. And I am concerned that its participants are too narrowly based, that is, it is America and former colonial powers. That seems to me to create a political problem immediately.
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