Crude Vision
How oil interests obscured US Government focus on chemical weapons use by Saddam Hussein.
How oil interests obscured US Government focus on chemical weapons use by Saddam Hussein.
Since September 11 and the ensuing war on terrorism, Central Asia’s geopolitics have been further complicated by the new military presence of the United States, whose troops are now stationed in China’s and Russia’s backyard.
This past eight months of bloodletting between Israelis and Palestinians is no more than an additional, exhausting chapter in a decades old conflict.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the triumph in the Gulf War, the United States standsat least for a timeas the region’s dominant outside power.