Two months to Run. They could have at least brought him in under house arrest while he made his appeal.

Maybe these people have too many bad memories of when Russia did it to them- for far less reason. I just hope whomever suffers due to their lapse remembers that Germany let him get away.

Brzezinski was on some book program today, flogging his latest quite unnecessary production. He was the adviser, you will recall, to the unlamented Carter. They were responsible for the constant hectoring that broke Begin down and caused him to have Israel sign away, in return for nothing from Egypt except promises to be nice (all those promises were broken, and Egypt is now the world center for anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda; all contact with Israel is discouraged; Mubarak has refused even to visit Israel, save for one brief foray to meet with Clinton on the Red Sea). Brzezinski's visceral anti-Israel feelings -- he was anti-Israel before it was the easy and popular thing to do -- remain, but added to it, not surprisingly, is his bland assurance that there is nothing about Islam to worry about. Asked by a caller about Muslim immigrants in Europe, he complacently replied that integration of Muslims in Germany was going swimmingly. Had he any awareness of what is really going on, and how worried the German security services are, had he even heard of the "Caliphate" set up in Cologne, or realized that the Turks in Germany are far more Muslim than the Turks in Turkey (for Islam becomes a refuge for the disoriented and the homesick, and they become more, not less, militant and hostile toward Infidels), had he even read what the leader of the German Muslim community had said at the opening ceremony for the mosque in Grenada last year (the words are bloodcurdling -- google "Grenada" and "mosque" and read them for yourself), he might not have pooh-poohed the problem.

Let me assure everyone that Brzezinski, a very stupid man -- he used to love to drop the word "strategic" in front of every adjective, the way some people like to claim they are not merely doing a "study" but, bien sur, an "in-depth" study -- hollow words, hollow men -- knows nothing about Islam. And to presume to write a book today about foreign policy or the state of the world, and not to have inquired into the tenets and history of Islam, is to spout nonsense. Of necessity.

He has done quite well, for someone so mediocre, however. And he has pushed his children along in their brilliant careers. Nothing like nepotism and connections, eh? And why take time to do a little reading in Ibn Warraq, or Bat Ye'or, or the huge amount of scholarship -- so long hidden from view -- that can be unearthed from the Index Islamicus and other sources. Why should he bother to learn what "dhimmi" means, or why look too closely at the evidence for the world-wide Jihad? That would merely get in the way of his standard line: it is only that little matter in "Palestine" that prevents Arabs and the West from sitting down, like the lion and the lamb in a picture by Edward Hicks.

When bumpkins and clowns of the Carter and Brzezinski level -- it was during their rule that the Shah was abandoned, and Iran lost (did anyone actually read ahead of time what Khomeini had been writting since 1942? It was all in print. Of course, some of that print was Farsi --oops, too tough for the U.S. government to handle?)

Yesterday's men, with their record of failure, should have the decency to shut up. And the name of Brzezinski, like that of Abou Ben Adhem in Leigh Hunt's poem, should lead all the rest.