The Key Point To Bear In Mind

It Follows That America's Primary Interest Is To Help Ensure That No Single Power Comes To Control This Geopolitical Space And That The Global Community Has Unhindered Financial And Economic Access To It.

An Arc Of Crisis Stretches Along The Shores Of The Indian Ocean, With Fragile Social And Political Structures In A Region Of Vital Importance To Us Threatened With Fragmentation. The Resulting Political Chaos Could Well Be Filled By Elements Hostile To Our Values And Sympathetic To Our Adversaries.

According To The Official Version Of History, Cia Aid To The Mujahideen Began During 1980, That Is To Say, After The Soviet Army Invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But The Reality, Secretly Guarded Until Now, Is Completely Otherwise. Indeed, It Was July 3, 1979 That President Carter Signed The First Directive For Secret Aid To The Opponents Of The Pro-soviet Regime In Kabul. And That Very Day, I Wrote A Note To The President In Which I Explained To Him That In My Opinion This Aid Was Going To Induce A Soviet Military Intervention.

The Legitimacy Of The Leadership Depends On What That Country Thinks Of Its Leaders. When We Lay Off, More And More Iranians Tend To Be Critical Of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The More Abusive We Are And The More Pressure We Put On Them, The More Nationalism Fuses With Fundamentalism In Iran.

America Is The Only Superpower. But Our Leadership Is Being Tested In The Middle East, And Some Of The Things That We Have Done In The Middle East Are Contributing To A Potential Explosion Region-wide. And If That Explosion Gets Out Of Hand, We May End Up Being Bogged Down For Many Years To Come In A Conflict That Will Be Profoundly Damaging To Our Capacity To Exercise Our Power, To Address The Problems Implicit In This Global Awakening, And We May Face A World In Which Much Of The World Turns Away From Us, Seeks Its Own Equilibrium, But Probably Slides Into A Growing Chaos.