"War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions."
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist who served as U.S. national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter. He was a major strategist of late-Cold War U.S. foreign policy.