Did you ever notice that whenever there is a dictator under seige the media digs up old - very old - defenders of the past.

“WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski likened U.S. officials’ saber rattling about Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions to similar statements made before the start of the Iraq war.

“I think the administration, the president and the vice president particularly, are trying to hype the atmosphere, and that is reminiscent of what preceded the war in Iraq,” Brzezinski told CNN’s “Late Edition” on Sunday.”

Of course he would think that. It was Brzezinski’s incompetence that made Iran the thug nation it is today, as he more than any figure of that period created the transition of Iran to an anti-Western Islamic state. He is also the one who called 9/11 a “challenge largely of regional origin‚Äù.

Victor Davis Hanson was right when he wrote of Brzezinski in 2005 in response to another screed;

“..that such criticism comes from a high official of an administration that witnessed on its watch the Iranian-hostage debacle, the disastrous rescue mission, the tragicomic odyssey of the terminally ill shah, the first and last Western Olympic boycott, oil hikes even higher in real dollars than the present spikes, Communist infiltration into Central America, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Cambodian holocaust, a gloomy acceptance that perpetual parity with the Soviet Union was the hope of the day, the realism that cemented our ties with corrupt autocracies in the Middle East (Orwellian sales of F-15 warplanes to the Saudis minus their extras), and the hard-to-achieve simultaneous high unemployment, high inflation, and high interest rates..”

Cue the “Glass Houses” song.