Guess who said this and when:
U.S. foreign policy must:
"...safeguard the stability of the Persian Gulf theater and access to those fuel tanks of the West and Japan whose outlets run across the Indian Ocean. The Middle East is no longer another geographical square on the chessboard, comparable to Southeast Asia or Latin America. Owing to the geo-economics of energy, that region instead is now the wood and ivory of the chessboard itself. The Persian Gulf is inseparable from the future of NATO and the destiny of Japan. For at least another 15 years, Middle East policy is United States energy policy; and energy policy is intimately linked to Unites States domestic employment, and to our economic and defense policy broadly considered..."
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Frank R. Barnett (one of the right-wing architects of the Cold War)
"Moscow's Grand Strategy Unfolds: Part Two"
The American Legion Magazine, February 1979, pp. 12-13.
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Chip Berlet Political Research Associates