"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours. Everything we don't grab will go to them."
[Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party - Agence France Presse, 15 Nov 1998]

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Our strategic and security interests throughout the world will be best safeguarded by the establishment in suitable spots of 'Police Stations', fully equipped to deal with emergencies within a large radius. Kuwait is one such spot from which Iraq, South Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf could be controlled. It will be worthwhile to go to considerable trouble and expense to establish and man a 'Police Station' there.
British Foreign Office, policy memo, 1947