In chapter 2, titled "Stumbling into the Islamic World," Clarke writes "to understand why that movement has chosen America as its target and why America failed to see the effects of its actions, we need to remind ourselves of some of the events of the last twenty-five years." Clarke gives the example of Ronald Reagan, "inserting U.S. military influence" into the Middle East. Reagan's foreign policies "created new equations," says Clarke, "by confronting Moscow in Afghanistan, inserting the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf, and by strengthening Israel as a base for a southern flank against the Soviets."
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Against all Enemies - Richard A. Clarke
Against all Enemies - Richard A. Clarke
In chapter 2, titled "Stumbling into the Islamic World," Clarke writes "to understand why that movement has chosen America as its target and why America failed to see the effects of its actions, we need to remind ourselves of some of the events of the last twenty-five years." Clarke gives the example of Ronald Reagan, "inserting U.S. military influence" into the Middle East. Reagan's foreign policies "created new equations," says Clarke, "by confronting Moscow in Afghanistan, inserting the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf, and by strengthening Israel as a base for a southern flank against the Soviets."
In chapter 2, titled "Stumbling into the Islamic World," Clarke writes "to understand why that movement has chosen America as its target and why America failed to see the effects of its actions, we need to remind ourselves of some of the events of the last twenty-five years." Clarke gives the example of Ronald Reagan, "inserting U.S. military influence" into the Middle East. Reagan's foreign policies "created new equations," says Clarke, "by confronting Moscow in Afghanistan, inserting the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf, and by strengthening Israel as a base for a southern flank against the Soviets."
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