OBAMA ADVISER A HAWK ON...ISRAEL?

Former Jimmy Carter National Security Adviser and current Barack Obama foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski gave an interview to the Daily Beast and intimated that if Israel attempts to take out Iran's nuclear facilities, the United States should take down their planes.

Q: How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest?
A: We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?

Q: What if they fly over anyway?
A: Well, we have to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren’t just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a Liberty in reverse. [Israeli jet fighters and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty in international waters, off the Sinai Peninsula, during the Six-Day War in 1967. Israel later claimed the ship was the object of friendly fire.]

Based on the fact that Brzezinski is advocating intentionally attacking Israeli planes, does he believe the attack on USS Liberty was not the result of friendly fire?

Personally, I find it interesting how Brzezinski so willingly identifies Iraqi airspace as U.S. airspace when it suits the purpose of shooting down our ally's war planes.

According to the WASHINGTON NOTE, Brzezinski detested our going into Iraq. He was quoted as saying:

The war in Iraq is a historic, strategic, and moral calamity. Undertaken under false assumptions, it is undermining America's global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America's moral credentials. Driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability.

Wouldn't using land / air space obtained in a morally calamitous war only serve to exacerbate any problems that exist? If going into Iraq undermined our global legitimacy, how does piling on by using Iraqi airspace to attack Israeli planes restore that legitimacy?

The WEEKLY STANDARD BLOG puts this insane scenario into perspective:

...conjure the image -- the Obama administration sending U.S. aircraft up to protect Iran's airspace and it's nuclear installations from an attack by a democracy that is one of America's closest allies. Unfortunately, this may not be so hard to imagine in Israel, where the number of people who believe Obama is pro-Israel is at just 4 percent -- and falling. And given Obama's (literally) submissive posture to the Saudis, his indulgence of the Iranians, and his simultaneously hard-line approach to Israel, it seems even some of Obama's supporters can savor the possibility of a "reverse Liberty."

Based on the preponderance of less-than-stellar associates Barack Obama has chosen to affiliate himself with almost for as long as he's been alive, this shouldn't be all that shocking.

Here's the ENTIRE INTERVIEW at the Daily Beast.

h/t to FREE REPUBLIC