"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"

This quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski talks to the present fixation of the United States with the War on Terrorism. He thinks that this focus reflects a narrow and extremist vision of diplomacy for the world's first superpower. He thinks that the United States has real idealistic traditions, and that this concentrate on terrorism does not show those customs. He thinks that the United States must be taking a look at a wider vision of foreign policy, one that takes into account the optimistic customs of the nation. He believes that the War on Terrorism must not be the only focus of the United States, which a more comprehensive vision of diplomacy ought to be considered.