In its keenness to assert the primacy of its national interestsand strategic objectives through any means, the US has over the years madeheroes out of surrogates, whose only qualification was that they were preparedto do its bidding. Ultimately, it ended up with the mortification ofseeing these heroes of yesterday becoming the Frankenstein's monsters of today,endangering the very US national interests to protect which they were initiallycreated.