From Strategic Culture
By Konstantine Gordeev
''Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) who formerly served as the US military
intelligence officer published in the Armed Forces Journal an opinion
piece titled “Blood Borders. How a Better Middle East Would Look” which
included a hypothetic map of the region with the existing states
scissored according to the populations' religion and ethnicity. The
paper ignited major controversy which was premised in an assumption that
it reflected the US Administration's vision for the region (Fig. 2).
Roughly at the same time US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice floated
in the discussion of the war between Israel and Lebanon the term “the
New Middle East” to designate an alternative to the Greater Middle East
[4]. Shortly thereafter, Peters published “Never Quit the Fight”, a
treatise which featured the same map accompanied by a number of bold
arguments. The book is currently in use in the US Army for for
instruction purposes.''
''It is an open secret that neither exporting democracy nor
sustaining peace in the Middle East play any roles in Washington's real
agenda. The number one unreported aim must be to place the markets in
the affected area under the control of international financial groups,
number two being to secure the routes for feeding to the West the energy
and other resources found massively in the Middle East. The same routes
will surely serve as avenues for illicit transit such as drug and human
trafficking, with an eye to tilting the demographic balances and
undermining the living standards in the countries enjoying a decent
socioeconomic climate.''
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