Planned Chaos in the Middle East-and Beyond

Geopolitical observers of the Middle East turbulence tend to blame the raging chaos in the area on the presumed failure of the ";incoherent,"; ";illogical"; or ";contradictory"; policies of the United States. Irrefutable evidence (some of which presented in this study) suggests, however, that in fact the chaos represents the success, not failure, of those policies-policies that are designed by