The United States and its allies need to protect their vital strategic interests in the region — balancing against rogue states such as Iran, ensuring access to energy resources, and countering violent extremists. Achieving these goals will require working with some authoritarian governments and accepting the Arab world for what it is today.
Autocratic regimes such as those in Jordan and Saudi Arabia are vital allies in the fight against radical Islamist terrorism, Jones contends, and “keeping such cooperation intact is imperative.”“In fact, the cold reality is that some democratic governments in the Arab world would almost certainly be more hostile to the United States than their authoritarian predecessors, because they would be more responsive to the populations of their countries, which are largely anti-American.”argues Seth G. Jones, Associate Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation
Autocratic regimes such as those in Jordan and Saudi Arabia are vital allies in the fight against radical Islamist terrorism, Jones contends, and “keeping such cooperation intact is imperative.”“In fact, the cold reality is that some democratic governments in the Arab world would almost certainly be more hostile to the United States than their authoritarian predecessors, because they would be more responsive to the populations of their countries, which are largely anti-American.”argues Seth G. Jones, Associate Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation
[ed note:from the associate director to same think that a few years ago called for us to start new wars to boost us economy!!! RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/179902
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