The Americans should avoid repeating their past mistakes in Iraq

17th Oct 2005, 02:22 GMT

Zbigniew Brzenzinski, the former U.S. national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, has recently made a compelling argument that U.S. President George W. Bush's misguided policies in the Middle East have amounted to "suicidal statecraft." Pointing to the mounting costs of the Iraq war and the shameful mistakes such as Abu Ghraib, Brzenzinski suggests that under Bush's leadership.