Book of Liars

In a talk at Duke University this week, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's former national security advisor, showed just how easy it is to revise history:

Brzezinski said there's no reason to think a bloodbath would necessarily follow a U.S. withdrawal.

"We expected that the U.S. leaving Vietnam would result in massive killings and genocide and so forth, and collapse of the dominoes in Southeast Asia," he said. "It didn't happen. How certain are we of the horror scenarios that have been mentioned in what will take place in Iraq?"

It.Didn't.Happen.

How is it possible that anyone, let alone the president's national security advisor, can make that statement? Even the Herald-Sun acknowledges the facts:

History does record that a bloodbath that claimed millions of lives occurred in neighboring Cambodia, the so-called "killing fields," and that millions more people left Vietnam as refugees after the two countries fell in 1975.

How did Brzezinski miss this little tidbit when it was reported on the news and in the front page of every newspaper in the world? Or do "massive killings" and genocide not count when they happen to people of different races thousands of miles away?

So how do we explain this? Is it a failing memory? A deliberate omission? Or is it a rewriting of history to fit the current liberal narrative in Iraq?

Robin Williams once said that anyone who remembered the sixties wasn't there. It appears Zbiggy took two sixties and went straight to the 90's.