As then-Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained to General Wesley Clark in 1991: “We learned that we can intervene militarily in the region with impunity, and the Soviets won’t do a thing to stop us… [We’ve] got about five to ten years to take out these old Soviet ‘surrogate’ regimes – Iraq, Syria, and the rest – before the next superpower [China] comes along to challenge us in the region.”
Como el entonces Secretario de Defensa Paul Wolfowitz explicó al general Wesley Clark en 1991: “Nos hemos dado cuenta de que podemos intervenir militarmente en esa región con impunidad, porque los soviéticos no harán nada para detenernos...