Good point, and needs to be emphasized.
For example, do not overlook the detail mentioned early in the story--about uranium for sale by South Africa in 1993. The story behind this is that when the end was in sight for civilization in South Africa, the deClerk government offered this material for sale to the United States.
The flakey new clintoid administration was so interested in White House pizza parties, homosexual Sojer Boys and socialized medicine that --they took a message and never bothered to get back to the South Africans.
Sec-o'-State Warren Christopher was probably too busy entering his second childhood and just didn't give a sh*t.
Anyway, the barbarians who took over South Africa basically shrugged and --sold it to someone else. I wonder who.
Just another case of Billyboy too busy J*-ing off to take care of business.