Our customers are worldwide themselves - the Middle East, the Far East, Europe.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.
These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.
On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.
The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas.
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.