A Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

Henry A. Kissinger

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Henry A. Kissinger
Born: May 27, 1923

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