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TRANSCRIPT OF SCOWCROFT-BRZEZINSKI MEETING
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A small meeting I hosted on Thursday with former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski to inaugurate the launch of a suite of new foreign policy programs at the New America Foundation continues to draw attention.
Watch for an article in tomorrow's New York Times by Steve Weisman that draws on material from the luncheon discussion. There are now countless articles out there on the web that address Scowcroft's comments and President Bush's rebuttal.
There are also many who are writing about Zbigniew Brzezinski's comments that America must address the fact that it has already suffered a major moral set back and military set back because of the Iraq War. Brzezinki's comments that to win this war, America would have to commit 500,000 troops, spend $200 billion a year, consider reinstituting the draft, and take other steps have also stirred debate.
The rough transcript of their remarks (which were extemporaneous) is available here. We are still working on the Q&A section.
If you would like to watch the speeches and Q&A, you may click here and watch the event over the web.
More to come.
-- Steve Clemons
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Were you blogging from what is apparently the blogger's paradise Starbucks today, say, at about 3 PM?
Dear Jon E -- Greetings. You caught me. I hope I was not rudely speaking into a cell phone near you as I was scrambling to edit transcripts, respond to journalists by email who were not happy they weren't invited last Thursday, and trying to rent the apartment below my house. But yes, I was that blogger. Say hello if you see me there again -- as I'm there most mornings.
All the best,
Steve
Also, Maureen Dowd picked up on it in the Sunday NYT
i read and watched the brzezinski/snowcroft discussion....the more i read and observe convinces me that militarily we NEVER should have been there and we need to do a vanishing act post haste.............
on anothe note, i'm pleased to announce that my band and i, "rich mix and the posse", are ready to release our new cd,"it's not our war, bring them back".......stylistically, the sound of the track is approximately what "tower of power" might have sounded like today except we have chanting(rapping)and singing instead of just singing...anyone interested in obtaining a copy can do so by writing to me, rich pulin, at jzcmpsr22@yahoo.com
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