Brzezinski (Jan 1998) Le Nouvel Observateur Interview (Annotated)

This video commemorates the death of Zbigniew Brzezinski, by referring to one of the important US foreign policy issues in which he played a big part - Afghanistan.

Video contents:

The original French version of the 1998 interview appeared in "Les Révélations d'un Ancien Conseilleur de Carter: ‘Oui, la CIA est Entrée en Afghanistan avant les Russes...’ in "Le Nouvel Observateur" [Paris], January 15-21, 1998, p. 76. Original French text at http://www.voltairenet.org/article165889.html

Translated from the French by William Blum and David N. Gibbs. This translation was published in Gibbs, "Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Retrospect," International Politics 37, no. 2, 2000, pp. 241-242. Full text at http://dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/files/afghan-ip.pdf

Sound:

- America The Beautiful: Christopher W French (Public domain) http://www.rhythmontherock.com/america_the_beautiful.html

- Funeral March: Chopin from https://youtu.be/47qUk8B1A3s

Images:

- “Mujahedin in 1984”
Image: http://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_sovietunion-afghanistan-muj.jpg.jpg

- “National Security Advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski meets with US
President Jimmy Carter January 21, 1977”
Image: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/390067-brzezinski-afghanistan-ussr-cold-war/

- “After a diagram in Mohammad Yousaf, Mark Adkin: Afghanistan – The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower. Casemate 2001”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Afghanistankrieg-Ressourcen.svg

- “US-Map of Soviet Invasion in Afghanistan”
ImageMo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:SovietInvasionAfghanistanMap.png

- “Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Highlands near Kabul, 1986.”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:Afgan30mmAutoMinomet.jpg

- “Soviet paratroopers aboard a BMD-1 in Kabul (1986)”
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War#/media/File:BMD-1_in_Afghanistan.jpg

- Woman grieving at grave (DoD 1984)
Image: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45480000/jpg/_45480304_cemetery_afp466b.jpg

- The fall of the Berlin Wall
(Euro date 9 11 1989)
Image: https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/images/56-4001989-14470729306dd6cc1440b049b99b1fdc476571ed6d.jpg

Related sites:

- "Bitter Lake" - video by Adam Curtis. (Jan 2015) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4393514/) Partial cut at https://youtu.be/nvyeWaVMDrI
Note the themes of initial US "innocence" (or naivety) and "the Russians did it" theme starting around 21:00.