The Pentagon participated in a pretty disturbing briefing on Saudi Arabia. It shows a little of what’s going on in the Mideast that no one is talking about. The real reasons behind the march to war on Iraq. From Slate’s The PowerPoint That Rocked the Pentagon:
Diplomatic china rattled in Washington and cracked in Riyadh yesterday when the Washington Post published a story about a briefing given to a Pentagon advisory group last month. The briefing declared Saudi Arabia an enemy of the United States and advocated that the United States invade the country, seize its oil fields, and confiscate its financial assets unless the Saudis stop supporting the anti-Western terror network.
I understood most of the presentation, but can you explain the final slide:
- Grand strategy for the Middle
- Iraq is the tactical pivot
- Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot
- Egypt the prize
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Why those three things and why is Egypt the prize?