Editing Al-Qaeda (section)

===The State Department Response===
The war in Afghanistan delighted state department officials, including Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski. Voicing the utopian vision of what author Chalmers Johnson called the "military-industrial complex," Brzezinski wrote of the plans to control Eurasia, including Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan: For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia.... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia-and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained...To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three great imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.14 Brzezinski and fellow members of his "over-world" (the elite group which puppeteers events to bring about a "new world order") realized that the concept of democracy and freedom could never galvanize the scattered tribes and peoples of Central Asia. The people could only be unified by the cause of Allah since they were overwhelmingly Islamic."

Williams' goes on to explain what [[Operation Gladio]] looked like in Afghanistan..."in the view of American geostrategists, offered many be efits, including the possible downfall of the Soviet Union and the possibility of gaining access and control over the vast natural gas and o resources of Eurasia.