Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

The SCC was always chaired by Brzezinski a circumstance he had to negotiate with Carter to achieve. The Trilateral Commission is a group of prominent political and business leaders and academics primarily from the United States Western Europe and Japan. He actively supported Polish Solidarity and the Afghan resistance to Soviet invasion and provided covert support for national independence movements in the Soviet Union.

He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ABC News' This Week with Christiane Amanpour and on MSNBC's Morning Joe where his daughter Mika Brzezinski is co-anchor. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U.