tôi thấy hầu hết trong số họ miễn cưỡng chia sẻ thông tin với tôi họ dường như bị đe dọa bởi sự hiện diện của tôi. Thông thường, họ nói với tôi rằng tôi sẽ phải kiểm tra với ông chủ của họ , với các cơ quan chính phủ, hoặc có trụ sở chính của công ty ở Jakarta tôi đôi khi nghi ngờ một số loại âm mưu nhắm vào tôi. | States and our allies. If other countries such as Iran Iraq Indonesia or Venezuela threatened embargoes Saudi Arabia with its vast petroleum supplies would step in to fill the gap simply the knowledge that they might do so would in the long run discourage other countries from even considering an embargo. In exchange for this guarantee Washington would offer the House of Saud an amazingly attractive deal a commitment to provide total and unequivocal . political and if necessary military support thereby ensuring their continued existence as the rulers of their country. It was a deal the House of Saud could hardly refuse given its geographic location lack of military might and general vulnerability to neighbors like Iran Syria Iraq and Israel. Naturally therefore Washington used its advantage to impose one other critical condition a condition that redefined the role of EHMs in the world and served as a model we would later attempt to apply in other countries most notably in Iraq. In retrospect I sometimes find it difficult to understand how Saudi Arabia could have accepted this condition. Certainly most of the rest of the Arab world OPEC and other Islamic countries were appalled when they discovered the terms of the deal and the manner in which the royal house capitulated to Washington s demands. The condition was that Saudi Arabia would use its petrodollars to purchase . government securities in turn the interest earned by these securities would be spent by the . Department of the Treasury in ways that enabled Saudi Arabia to emerge from a medieval society into the modern industrialized world. In other words the interest compounding on billions of dollars of the kingdom s oil income would be used to pay . companies to fulfill the vision I and presumably some of my competitors had come up with to convert Saudi Arabia into a modern industrial power. Our own . Department of the Treasury would hire us at Saudi expense to build infrastructure projects and .
