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At the center of this rival crisis stood Egypt's charismatic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had seized power in 1952 and had vowed to unite the Arab world under his leadership. The Soviets encouraged him with arms and money. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles retaliated by canceling...
Pearl Harbor ignited Bush emotionally, though not yet intellectually. He enlisted and went off to the Pacific as a torpedo-bomber pilot. "It was good vs. evil," he says. "The evil was epitomized by Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito. There was never any second-guessing, never any rationalization about what...
The Iranian leadership's unease over the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia is not assuaged by the heritage of Operation Desert Shield's commander, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The general's father, also named H. Norman, won fame for investigating the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, but some Iranians remember him...
Just as Dulles had done in the '50s, the U.S. was again drawing a line in the dust and warning the bad guys not to cross it. It is questionable that even in their most expansionist phase, the Soviets ever seriously considered a grab for the oil and warm-water...
It is up to the U.S. and the Soviet Union to fill the vacuum, and to do so together. Each superpower has formidable firepower within striking distance of Iraq and, in Saudi Arabia and Syria, a well-armed client state on Iraq's border. Even before the latest crisis, Moscow...