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In other words, the promotion and practice of representative gov- now had a pretext for radicalising and arming a population that ernment amongst other nations would lead to doomsday itself. In would be used at a future date as a "direct external threat" to the such statements, the former National Security Advisor reveals the United States. authoritarian features of his bizarre eschatology. According to Part of the radicalisation process included the brainwashing of Brzezinski's Weltanschauung, those who cherish individual liberties children under the guise of education. The Washington Post's Joe and the sovereignty of their respective nations constitute the "forces Stephens and David B. Ottaway report (pp. 1-2): of global disorder"; these forces must be defeated or they will In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of invariably cause the apocalypse—so public opinion must be altered. dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with (Brzezinski fails to mention that such a doomsday will only mean violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert the end for him and his elitist comrades.) Brzezinski cites a very attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation. interesting historical example (p. 25): The "Primers", which were filled with talk of jihad and featured The public supported America's engagement in World War II drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Harbor. Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical Ah, an option presents itself! Mass consensus could be facilitated movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fun - through mass trauma. In fact, the engineering of widespread com- — damentalist code. pliance is an essential constituent in the Stephens and Ottaway identify the govern- implementation of Brzezinski's foreign poli- mental and educational organisations involved cy. In an exemplary moment of self-incrimi- in development of the textbooks (p. 4): nation so endemic to elitist tracts, Brzezinski Published in the dominant Afghan lan - pens a damning confession (p. 211): guages of Dari and Pashtu, the textbooks were Moreover, as America becomes an increas - developed in the early 1980s under an AID ingly multi-cultural society, it may find it [Agency for International Development] grant more difficult to fashion a consensus on for - to the University of Nebraska-Omaha and its eign policy issues, except in the circumstance This social Center for Afghanistan Studies. The agency of a truly massive and widely perceived direct . . . spent $51 million on the university's education external threat. eng ineerl ng proj ect programs in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994. A readily exploitable menace, whether gen- successfull Under this project, the images and talk of uine or promulgated, is the solution. y violence were craftily intermingled with legiti- Brzezinski began the construction of his transformed mate education (p. 4): "direct external threat" years before he . . Children were taught to count with wrote The Grand Chessboard. In an Muslim children illustrations showing tanks, missiles and interview with the French magazine Le into conscienceless land mines, agency officials said. They killing machines. Nouvel Observateur, the former national acknowledged that at the time it also security adviser made a stunning con- suited US interests to stoke hatred of for - fession that will change the history eign invaders. books forever (Blum, p. 1): An examination of a textbook pro- Q: The former director of the CIA, duced shocking results (p. 5): Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs An aid-worker in the region reviewed [From the Shadows] that American an unrevised 100-page book and counted intelligence services began to aid the 43 pages containing violent images or Mujahadeen in Afghanistan six months passages. before the Soviet intervention. In this The writers of the Washington Post period you were the national security story go on to provide a specific example adviser to President Carter. You there - of the material that is nothing less than fore played a role in this affair. Is that correct? appalling (pp. 5-6): Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA One page from the texts of that period shows a resistance fighter aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the with a bandolier and a Kalashnikov slung from his shoulder. The Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan, December 24, 1979. But the soldier's head is missing. reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, Above the soldier is a verse from the Koran. Below is a Pashtu it was July 3, 1979, that President Carter signed the first directive tribute to the mujaheddin [sic], who are described as obedient to for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. Allah. Such men will sacrifice their wealth and life itself to impose And that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I Islamic law on the government, the text says. explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a This social engineering project successfully transformed Muslim Soviet military intervention. children into conscienceless killing machines. Many would go on to Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. join al-Qa'ida, the terrorist network headed up by Osama bin Laden. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and An heir to a Saudi construction fortune, bin Laden went to looked to provoke it? Afghanistan in 1979 to fight the Soviets. Bin Laden eventually B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, came to head the Maktab al-Khidamar, also known as the MAK. It but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. was through this front organisation that money, arms and fighters were supplied to the Afghan war. However, according to MSNBC's Re-education and the Creation of the Taliban Michael Moran, there is more to the story (p. 2): Having encouraged the Soviets to invade Afghanistan, Brzezinski What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified now had a pretext for radicalising and arming a population that would be used at a future date as a "direct external threat" to the United States. Part of the radicalisation process included the brainwashing of children under the guise of education. The Washington Post's Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway report (pp. 1-2): In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation. The "Primers", which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fun - damentalist code. This social ; engineering project successfully transformed Re-education and the Creation of the Taliban Having encouraged the Soviets to invade Afghanistan, Brzezinski APRIL — MAY 2003 NEXUS 13 Muslim children into conscienceless killing machines. www.nexusmagazine.com