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US ambassador to UN: Middle
East turmoil could cause world war
Ron Brynaert
Raw
Story
Monday Aug 27, 2007
According to the US Ambassador to the United Nations, turmoil
in the Middle East could lead to another world war.
"Zalmay Khalilzad told
the daily Die Presse the Middle East was now so disordered
that it had the potential to inflame the world as Europe did during
the first half of the 20th century," Reuters
reports.
The Middle East "is going through a very difficult transformation
phase. That has strengthened extremism and creates a breeding
ground for terrorism," Khalilzad said in remarks translated by
Reuters into English from the published German. "Europe was just
as dysfunctional for a while. And some of its wars became world
wars. Now the problems of the Middle East and Islamic civilization
have the same potential to engulf."
Khalilzad, who has served on Bush's foreign policy team since
2000, also "was a charter signatory of the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC) founding statement of principles, and
he signed two subsequent PNAC letters," according
to Right Web.
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“We may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than
any we have known since the end of the Cold War,” Khalilzad wrote
Clinton along with fellow PNAC members and future Bush administration
members/Iraq war architects Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton, Richard
Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz in January of 1998. “Although we are
fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this
policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater.”
Excerpts from Reuters article:
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Khalilzad, interviewed by Die Presse while attending a foreign
policy seminar in the Austrian Alps, said the Islamic world would
eventually join the international mainstream but this would take
some time. "They started late. They don't have a consensus on
their concept. Some believe they should return to the time (6th-7th
century) of the Prophet Mohammad," he was quoted as saying. "It
may take decades before some understand that they can remain Muslims
and simultaneously join the modern world."
Khalilzad was also quoted as saying Iraq would need foreign forces
for security for a long time to come. "Iraq will not be in a position
to stand on its own feet for a longer period," he said in the
interview.
Asked whether that could be 10-20 years, he said: "Yes, indeed,
it could last that long. What form the help takes will depend
a lot on the Iraqis. Up to now there is no accord between Iraq
and the United States about a longer military presence."
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