Will international terrorists help the U.S. build ‘The Greater Middle East’?



Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Ras Lanuf
© AFP/ Roberto Schmidt
17:59 13/07/2011

This story by Peter Iskenderov PhD, Senior Research Associate Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org/ expert, was published in International Affairs magazine. http://en.interaffairs.ru/

The so-called ‘Arab spring’, which started as a wave of anti-government riots in Tunisia and Egypt, is now developing in full accordance with the US scenario, its main aim being to reshape the geopolitics, which the Bush administration once described as ‘The Greater Middle East’ plan.

Emphasis is made on maintaining instability in this region through its gradual territorial division. In case of success, the allies of the US in Western Europe might get a chance to control huge energy resources and energy routes thus preventing other countries from having their own zones of influence on territories expanding from Morocco and Algeria to western Indonesia and the Philippines. This tactics were previously successfully used in the Balkans.

A new national security strategy unveiled by the US administration proves that we`ve entered a new stage of the Arab revolution. First Barack Obama’s assistant for counterterrorism and homeland security, John Brennan said that Washington was going to deepen ties with governments in Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan and North Africa. Then the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton elaborated which ‘governments’ they were talking about: The Society of the Muslim Brotherhood, or simply ‘The Muslim Brotherhood’ Islamist organization, which has long been seeking power in Egypt, is one of them. “We welcome…dialogue with those Muslim Brotherhood members who wish to talk with usâ€