Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: "We have a deep state. The CIA is the main continuation agency of that deep state and it carries a basic foreign policy. The foreign policy of the United States since 1945 was to destroy the Soviet Union and then, after 1991, to try to do the same with Russia and if not destroy it to fundamentally weaken it. In the case of the Middle East, there is a list General Wesley Clark provided that Israel, Netanyahu and his U.S. backers set out already in the 1990s. It said our job is to overthrow all of those governments, and we've been at that for more than 20 years... It started with Iraq. The list named Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Somalia. Now I want people to understand the United States or its proxies have launched wars in six of those seven countries. That was a list agreed in 2001 based on a list from 1996 when Netanyahu came into office. His theory was Israel needs to be able to do what it wants to dominate the Palestinian people. So we need to overthrow all governments that support the Palestinians, especially that support them in militancy through Hamas or Hezbollah or other units Rather than negotiating with the Palestinians so that there's a Palestinian state, we will overthrow seven countries. Now that's what has happened. There's one left on that list, that's Iran... It's six out of seven right now."