Brzezinski to Newsmax: Shutdown's 'Uncertainty' Hurts US Foreign Policy

Brzezinski to Newsmax: Shutdown's 'Uncertainty' Hurts US Foreign PolicyThursday, 10 Oct 2013 07:23 PMBy Cathy Burke and Kathleen Walterhttp://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/brzezinski-shutdown-foreign-policy/2013/10/10/id/530467The 10-day-old government shutdown is already beginning to hurt U.S. foreign policy by causing "increasing uncertainty" about America, former President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinskisaid Thursday."It's creating increasing uncertainty about the United States, and the loss of confidence in the United States is itself damaging to the [nation]," he told Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview.Brzezinski, now a counselor and trustee of the Center for Strategic International Studies, said America's influence, especially in the Middle East, has been in decline for a decade.Zbigniew BrzezinskiZbigniew Brzezinski is a trustee at the Center for Strategic International Studies (think tank), Madeleine K. Albright was his dissertation adviser at Columbia, a board member for the International Crisis Group, and the national security adviser for the Jimmy Carter administration.Note: Madeleine K. Albright was Zbigniew Brzezinski’sdissertation adviser at Columbia, and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).Richard L.



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