Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States cannot be one of the two great world powers and refuse to act like a great power. To ignore appeals for help from supporters like Lebanon, to watch unmoved as friendly statesmen are mobbed and countries like Iraq are convulsed, to make no effort to reassure other friends in trouble like the Jordanians would be to abdicate the role that history and our wealth and energy have thrust upon...
...where the moves would lead-action led to reaction, threat to counterthreat. The U.S. moved marines into Lebanon with no certainty that the marines could halt in Lebanon without being drawn into shooting, or whether it might be preferable to the Western world to buttress a counterattack on Iraq. At that moment the answer to a single key question was still hidden behind Iraq's censorship and sealed borders. Was there anything to save in Iraq? At midweek came the answer: no. That was the turning point...
...downfall of his most hated Arab rival, and in the hour of his own victory, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser put on the appearance of a reasonable man: "Why does America get mad when free men of Iraq say they will protect their agreements, obligations and the peace?" Although the new Iraqi regime quickly signed a defense pact "against aggression" with Nasser, it promised to keep oil flowing to the West. Yet Nasser himself, in the first days of the nerve-jangling week, had been unable to sustain the look of the innocent and casual vacationer sailing through...
Then, in a series of spectacular flashes, the overheated Middle East took fire: pro-Nasser army officers overthrew Iraq's pro-Western monarchy, and within 40 hours U.S. marines moved into Lebanon. The absentee arsonist looked with an appraising eye on international wind and weather; given an unexpected change, his own house might be in danger of going up in the conflagration. For 72 hours the world assumed Nasser was still aboard the yacht, but not a word was heard from him. Then his official Middle East News Agency put out a terse summary of his surprising change...
...appeal of Arab unity, and so inflammatory is Cairo's radio propaganda, that Nasser probably has little need to spend vast sums on paid agents to keep things popping. He can often leave it to local plotters to do the dirty work-as he may have done in Iraq -providing them with arms, money and technical advice when needed. But Nasser is an inveterate instigator, and the plot against Jordan, which King Hussein broke up at the last moment by arresting 60 army men, was entirely directed from Cairo. Washington is pretty sure that Nasser...