[Peace-discuss] A dagger pointed at our oil

[C. G. Estabrook]

   " A new configuration of power is emergent in the Middle East - how 
substantial it is, and whether it will be able to withstand U.S. pressure, I 
can't say - but clearly a new configuration of power is beginning to emerge 
along the axis of Iran-Turkey-Syria and, you might argue, Lebanon - versus the 
grouping of the regime leftover from the British Mandate period, which has been 
taken over by the U.S. and includes Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and possibly 
Iraq, although it's not yet clear where Iraq fits into the picture. The U.S. is 
definitely concerned about this configuration of power, which is reminiscent of 
what in the nineteen sixties was called the 'radical Arab regimes,' back then 
headed by Nasser in Egypt, and Syria. Nowadays these regimes are less about the 
rhetoric, but they have substantial economies, and they're well entrenched."

Full article at <http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/1933/finkelstein_8_1_10/>.
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