US policymakers articulated a doctrine that whoever controls the Middle East controls the world

Evidence

“Whoever controls the Middle East”: Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 126. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1168

Categorization

• QUESTION: The truncated quote leaves me wanting the full sentence and its provenance — worth tracking down Little’s original cite.