Experts on US Foreign Policy

The United States, the Law, and the people of the world 

1. Globalisation

“For globalisation to work, America cannot be afraid to act like the almighty super power that it is. The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonald-Douglas, the designer of the F-15, and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technology is called the United States’ Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”  -  Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 28 March, 1999.

2. Bear in mind that the greatest untapped oil reserves in the world are located in the former Soviet Republics bordering the Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan).

2. The war in Kosovo 

"This is about America’s energy security. It’s also about preventing strategic inroads by those who don’t share our values. We are trying to move these newly independent countries toward the West. We would like to see them reliant on Western commercial and political interests. We’ve made a substantial political investment in the Caspian and it’s important that both the pipeline map and the politics come out right."  -  US Energy Secretary, Bill Richardson
3. “Stated US policy goals regarding energy resources in this region include fostering the independence of the new states and their ties to the West, breaking Russia’s monopoly over oil and gas transport routes, encouraging the construction of East/West pipelines that do not transit Iran and denying Iran dangerous leverage over the central Asian economies."  - Doug Bereutter, Chairman, US House Committee on International Relations at a hearing on the strategic importance of the Caspian region.

4.Need for military Resources

“Central Asian resources may revert back to the control of Russia or to a Russian led alliance. This would be a nightmare situation. We had better wake up to the dangers or one day the certainties on which we base our prosperity will be certainties no more. The potential prize in oil and gas riches in the Caspian sea, valued up to 4 trillion dollars, would give Russia both wealth and strategic dominance. The potential economic rewards of Caspian energy will draw in their train Western military forces to protect our investment if necessary." Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor of US News and World Report, May 1999. 

5.Sole Global Super Power 

"America’s emergence as the sole global superpower now makes an integrated and comprehensive strategy for Eurasia imperative. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's most economically productive regions, Western Europe and East Asia. A glance at the map also suggests that the country dominant in Eurasia would almost automatically control the Middle East and Africa. In Eurasia the immediate task is to ensure that no state or combination of states gains the ability to expel the United States or even diminish its decisive role. An enlarged NATO will serve the short term and long term interests of US policy."  Zbignieu Brezinski, 1997, former national security chief under President Carter .

6. A British View of American Motives in Kosovo

“How have you swallowed the CIA-funded propaganda that demonises the Serbs? Are you not familiar with the duplicity and intimidation  of the United States foreign policy? That Ambassador Walker, in charge of monitoring forces in Bosnia [Kosovo?], was financing the contras? Have you no recall of that ‘Free World’ crap that embraced Batista, Noriega, Syngman Rhee, Bao Dai, Lee Van Thieu and Sukarno?”   -  The late Alan Clarke, Conservative MP, former Minister of Defence, 27 March 1999, House of Commons. He said the real causes of the war were “considerations of oil brokerage, the ‘Seven Sisters’ and projected pipeline routes.”

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