The Reagan Administration has regularly used Libya for this purpose, arranging regular confrontations timed to domestic needs, for example, the need to gain support for the Rapid Deployment Force or for contra aid. The system is a hazardous one, and may sooner or later break down, leading to a terminal global war, something that has come close to happening more than once and will again. But this is the kind of long-term consideration that does not enter into planning. I will return to closer consideration of this matter in the fourth lecture.
Pigo lililotokea mapema mwa mwezi Juni 1940 lililopelekea anguko kwa mstari wa mwisho wa ulinzi wa jeshi la Ufaransa ulikuwa ni ushindi kamili uliompa Hitler furaha na shangwe huku akijua anapata msaada wa kutosha toka kwa Makamanda na Majemedali wake wa kivita, ambao kila mara alikuwa akiwapandisha vyeo na kuwapa namna nyingine za rushwa kama sehemu ya kuwapa motisha ya kuendelea na mapambano.