Tom Clancy

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

-- Tom Clancy

1970s America and the Middle East

“If the Middle East is a deck of cards, America holds 99% of them.”

-- President Anwar Sadat

Sadat thus thought that President Carter could easily force a peace deal on Israel, but it was not that easy. Even back then, one could overstate America’s power.

[Source: Lawrence Wright, “Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David”]