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[syoshioka99]

For over a half a century, American policy in the Middle East has been guided by several core security objectives: preventing any power in the region from emerging as a hegemon; ensuring the free flow of energy resources, still vital to the operation of the world economy; and attempting to broker a durable peace between Israel and its neighbors, including a settlement with the Palestinian Arabs. In the past decade, Iran has emerged as the principal challenge to all three of these objectives. These interests have not been abolished by the Arab Spring; their implementation has grown more urgent. A process that ends with regional governments either too weak or too anti-Western in their orientation to lend support to these outcomes, and in which American partnerships are no longer welcomed, must evoke American strategic concerns――regardless of the electoral mechanisms by which these governments come to power. Within the framework of these general limits, American policy has significant scope for creativity in promoting humanitarian and democratic values.

[Questions]
1) Please rephrase the phrase "ends with" here.

2) What are "these outcomes"? Can you be specific?



(source: http://www.henryakissinger.com/articles/iht040212.html)

[IanT]

1) has as its conclusion...

2) The three ideas beginning "preventing..." "ensuring..." and "attempting..." are the three outcomes he refers to. Technically, they're not outcomes, but his English isn't great!
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[syoshioka99]

1) has as its conclusion... which means destroy, overthrow, or topple regional governments?