Zbig's concerned about ignorance too
At a small salon dinner the other night in Washington, one of America’s most respected foreign policy practitioners confessed: “My great fear is that this is a wonderful country that is made up of ignorant people who are voters.”In a new book titled “America and the World,” Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser under Jimmy Carter, laments, “the next president will have to be a national teacher on these issues and make a very concerned, intellectually sustained effort to get the American people to think hard about what is new about the 21st century, what is unique about the challenges we face.”
For any doubters, it’s important to address just how ill-informed the American public stands. A July 2007 survey by Newsweek found that four in 10 Americans still believed “Saddam Hussein’s regime was involved in financing, planning or carrying out the terrorist attacks on 9/11.” The same summer Pew researchers found that nearly a third of Americans couldn’t name the vice president.