This partial chronology of U.S. intervention in the Middle East illustrates the lengths to which the U.S. power structure has gone to gain and maintain U.S. domination of the Middle East--a region considered key to the U.S.'s standing as an imperialist world power...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6308.htm

In the case of a superpower, ignorance is not bliss; it is a threat to Americans and to humanity...

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=523792.html

by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

LewRockwell.Com

06/08/04

"Round and round we go, and we never seem to learn. Regime change plans, whether by CIA operations or by preemptive war, almost always go badly. American intervention abroad -- installing the Shah of Iran in the fifties, killing Diem in South Vietnam in the sixties, helping Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the eighties, and propping up dictators in many Arab countries -- has had serious repercussions for American interests including the loss of American life. It is clear that interventionism leads to the perceived need for more interventionism, which leads to more conflict and to increased resentment and anti-Americanism. It is an endless cycle and the American taxpayer is always left holding the bill."...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul184.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp