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http://www.esquire.com/ESQ0303-MAR_WARPRIMER
The link explains the seam, the core, and the gap. Apparently the seam is not just a designation of geography but of globalization.
Yes, action coming from the seam could come from a great many places -- even Indonesia. So that particular part of the quote means little.
The link is interesting because it was written just as we were invading Iraq. To this fellow it is all really like pushpins on a map -- no concern at all for civilian populations which pay a huge price for war.
He says, "Freedom cannot blossom in the Middle East without security." Duh. That's exactly what Colin Powell kept complaining about to Bush and Rumsfeld.
We still all these years later have not achieved security for Iraq.
Wow. Reading that link made me want to kiss Ron Paul's isolationist butt.
Also, there is much going on about controlling drugs from gap states. I am so sick of the worldwide war on drugs and the sheer waste and expense of it.
