According to various U.S. government documents and writings, "the Near East is of great strategic, political, and economic importance," as it "contains the greatest petroleum resources in the world" as well as "essential locations for strategic military bases in any world conflict." U.S. aid to Middle East clients is an attempt to "encourage peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors," and serves for "the protection of vital petroleum supplies." Within the larger "Grand Area", "since World War II, the military component of U.S. strategy has been to: Project power into other regions and maintain access to distant markets and resources" - where "the threat to our interests could not be laid at the Kremlin's door." Contrary to decades of propaganda. Rather, the emphasis has been "on deterring, and if necessary fighting, regional wars or leftist or nationalist insurgencies that threaten U.S. and allied access to oil." The United States had become "the leading affluent 'have' power," and so it "may expect to fight to protect our national valuables against envious 'have nots'" - "since democracy as we know it will not be instituted by the lower classes as they gain powerrather they will bring in more of a dictatorship of the masses." Supressing the lower classes is essential as "the particular manner in which our economy has expanded, means that we have come to depend to no small degree on imports, exports and the earnings from overseas investments for our material well-being." Thus, the United States faces the "tyranny of the weak" until it can "lock in" pro-market reforms, via free trade agreements. The end.
