Thanks to Jimmy Carter's betrayal of the Shah, the world's premier state sponsor of anti-American terrorism was founded.
With aid from Russia, China and North Korea, Iran is becoming a nuclear power.
Sitting on the world's largest petroleum reserve, Iran's nuclear ambition is not energy, but weaponry.
We--America--are the Great Satan, while Israel is the Little Satan.
Kissinger is aware of the danger of an international player which does not recognize a concept of limits.
The power behind the Beirut Embassy and Beirut Marine barracks bombings in 1983 acknowledges no limit to its actions--for it is, after all, the vanguard of the Islamist revolution, an organizing principle which calls for the slaying of the infidel "wherever you find him".
Such a mad regime equipped with mass killing capacity by our historic enemies Russia, China and North Korea, viewing us as the main impediment to its acquisition of converts by conquest will engineer a series of deniable nuclear terror events creating unimaginable conditions.
Should the U.S. be decapitated by such a campaign, what will restrain China's hegemonic ambition to fulfil its cosmic destiny as the Middle Kingdom?
And, to be sure, Kissinger knows China.