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Zalmay Khalilzad was on the Board of a company called Friends of Afghanistan. Also on the Board was Zbigniew Brzezinski, the self-described mastermind of using Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan to attack Russia. Khalilzad taught at Brzezinski’s university, Columbia. Everything suggests Khalilzad was a Brzezinski protégé.

Congress proposed that Khalilzad’s organization, Friends of Afghanistan, teach the Afghan terrorists how to win international support by portraying those opposing them as human rights abusers. This technique now seems to be a staple of U.S. strategy.

Brzezinski was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1953 to 1960, and of Columbia University from 1960 to 1989, where he headed up the Institute on Communist Affairs.

So when I hear people whining about the “human rights abuses” of known or suspected terrorists, I immediately think of Khalilzad and Brzezinski, the “Friends of Afghanistan” and Congress. And all those people both above and below the covers who are connected with them. These are the same people who are are demonizing and cutting our military and doing horrible things to guys like Jack Idema without flinching. It’s a blatant double standard:

Idema was tortured with boiling water, starvation, threats of death, and assault with various implements (such as wire cables and rubber whips), resulting in broken ribs, a separated sternum, torn rotator cuffs, hemorrhaged eyes, multiple concussions, lacerations, contusions, and bruises.

Where’s the Red Cross on this one? Amnesty International? The American Embassy? Oops, the embassy is the one that tried to drive off with their water, just like the Red Cross who’s giving water to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. For some strange reason I hear the creepy and suspicious sound of crickets chirping on this one. You can believe that if this were a terrorist instead of Jack Idema, there would be all kinds of complaints from organizations like Human Rights Watch. Instead, there is complete and utter silence. Something wrong with this picture? You bet there is!!!!

And is there any small question in anyone’s mind when you consider that both Zalmay Khalilzad and Brzezinski taught at Columbia University that there might be some connection between them and the incendiary piece that Mariah Blake (Columbia Journalism Review) put out discrediting Jack Idema called “Tin Soldier”?

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