Uit een interview met James Baker
During the Gulf War, he was secretary of state in President George H. W. Bush's administration. He argues that access to Saudi energy reserves is vital to U.S. national security interests, and that the U.S. cannot allow the kingdom to become destabilized.
This interview was conducted mid-October 2001.
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-----Then we get them to buy -- with the urgings of people like yourself and
-----our government -- our equipment, our construction projects, our technology.
I'm not sure that's really right. They buy our construction, they buy our technology, because it's the best. They buy our military equipment because it's the best. They buy from America because they want America presence there to the extent we can be in the kingdom, because we are their security.\
Why are we their security? We're their security because we have a self-interest in making sure that
those energy reserves in the Persian Gulf don't fall under the control of a country that is adverse to the United States.
As I told you, I worked for four administrations under three presidents. And in every one of those, our policy was that
we would go to war to protect the energy reserves in the Persian Gulf. That is a major and very significant national security interest that we have.
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