As Libya burns and the EU fumbles around frantically we can’t allow ourselves to be distracted or pulled away from the Gulf:
The United States has a much more important strategy task, which is to ensure stability in the Gulf. The emerging Shiite-Sunni conflict in that region is a greater threat to worldwide peace than Libya. Iran has been stirring up trouble in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis have sent troops to Bahrain to keep the pro-Iranian rebels down. Iran has pursued a fanatical anti-Western ideology for thirty years, and they will not stop until somebody makes them. The United States is the only power that can. That is our strategic priority.
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