Zbigniew Brzezinski vs Brent Scowcroft On Libya

I have to check my premises for their structural integrity. People are a lot more complex and multidimensional than black and white but I need to be binary on my own conclusion and judgement with respect to who runs the show. 

Brent Scowcroft is going to be the man I*m going to learn a lot more about. Either I'm right and Scowcroft was fantastically unaware of Bush Senior's criminal genius or I'm wrong. The evidence for Bush Sr's mastermind criminal mind I've already blogged and will continue to blog (there's so much, it's more an open hose than a dripping tap). But Scowcroft has just enough credibility in the tiny thin slice I've taken from watching and listening to him for a couple of hours that I'm going to see if I can prove that his judgement is better than mine.

In the meantime here's Brent arguing against a deluded or deceptive Brzezinski (Benghazi was a set up for NATO intervention but you wouldn't know this listening to Zbig) and as history has shown us Scowcroft's caution has been proven to be right. Couple this with his WSJ Op-Ed where he declared Bush Jr's war on Iraq was unwise and I think he's got just enough credibility and integrity to let me believe there's no way he could have stood by Bush Sr if he knew how criminal the man really is. Unfortunately if I'm wrong, Scowcroft is a criminal and if I'm right Scowcroft isnt' very astute. But that doesn't mean I don't respect him right now. Complex isn't it?

Brent Scowcroft was George HW Bush's National Security Advisor. 

A Conversation With Brent Scowcroft - Council On Foreign Relations

Brent Scowcroft confirms my view that he's not instrumental in some kind of CIA Mormon Mafia and that he's not as smart as his reputation might suggest in this video conversation. 

That doesn't mean he's not interesting. Aside from having a solid gold elite career as a Trilateralist, National Security Advisor, Kissinger Associates and of course Council on Foreign relations his reputation is good. He fought with the really bad elements of the Bush administration (and eventually fell out with Bush Father and Son over a WSJ Op-Ed advising no Iraq invasion) so his well respected reputation is in some respects deserved and interestingly he was chosen by Obama to choose his national security team, a classic Obama bipartisan move. I'd say Scowcroft is like Jimmy Carter; half unwitting shoe-in, half intelligent and half decent. In the scheme of US politics this is as good as it gets.

His marbles are reasonably well together for his age. He is fairly coherent and has a good recall of his time in office during this interview despite being 80ish. He is pictured above in front of Gerald Ford and with Kissinger. This was when all the Neocons moved into the Whitehouse and was a fascinating time for ponerology or the study of evil.

A Conversation with Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Brent Scowcroft

I've been meaning to dig around Brent Scowcroft work since my Iran Contra research as his name pops up from time to time. His name has resurfaced in connection with the CIA Mormon faction that Tarpley has intriguingly raised and my own quick skim analysis from this speech is he's not that clever. It's evident that he's bought into the rhetoric and while he could be lying, I didn't get that feel and to me he feels like a clever George HW Bush pick because as you may know he's the criminal mastermind and why would he pick a clever National Security Adviser? What you need around you if you're George HW Bush is either another criminal like Alexander Haig or a dimwit like Scowcroft. Someone who can do the job, do it without ever questioning the bigger picture and do while remaining loyal to a corrupt administration that of course he never mentions once in this interview although to be fair Iran Contra took place when George HW Bush was running the Whitehouse when President Reagan was in charge.

I'll do some more time with Scowcroft but I'm not anticipating any more Mormon CIA faction evidence to surface from his direction although that doesn't mean it does not exist as I've learned from this post. Indeed the Mormon Mossad connection gets very strong when we think of Bibi and Bain.

There's a lot more to learn with Scowcroft but I susspect he's more the unwitting front man than the criminal mind lurking in the shadows.