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...planned military move or else exploit it for Soviet ends. The following year he fought a war not to acquire a specific sliver of territory but to restore Egypt's self-respect and thereby increase its diplomatic flexibility. Clearly, there had been an intelligence failure. What no one believed???the consumers no more than the producers of intelligence?was the notion of starting an unwinnable war to restore self-respect...
...ended the war by six months from now, you can come back and tear down the White House fence." Writes Anthony Lake, a young Foreign Service officer who resigned in 1970 because of the war: "To be believed is (to some extent) to be trusted. Not to be believed???the present condition Washington often faces before the world and the American people ?threatens the character of representative democracy...
Directly as a result of popular discon tent and army disgust at the bloody Morocco fiasco, the then Captain General of Catalonia, Primo de Rivera, marched upon Madrid in 1923 with the "confidence" of his fellow military satraps and? it is generally believed???the connivance of the King. His Majesty thought in 1923 and continued to think last week that extra-Constitutional methods would best bulwark his Throne...
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