Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examining the authors' statement that the United States must "come to terms with Arab nationalism," Kirk declared that although all nations must accommodate their foreign policy to conditions in other nations, there are degrees of accommodation: the more powerful a nation, the less it must adjust to others...
...Kirk next refuted the author's claim that aspirations to Arab unity come from a lexicon of liberal foundations. By quoting speeches made by Nasser on several occasions during the past five years, he showed that the dictator's desire that Egypt spread "from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf" is but the traditional Egyptian attempt to expand, now under the guise of Arab unity...
Illustrating the difficulty in working with the Arab states, Kirk again quoted Nasser as boasting that he was among the "strongest animals in the jungle." The Egyptian ruler also seems to believe, he added, that "the British lion has grown old and mangy under regalitarian socialism," and that "the American eagle seems to have run to tail fins and Goldfines...
Furthermore, he continued, one cannot deal even with moderate forms of Arab nationalism. "Those advocating it are now being murdered and denounced as traitors." Kirk went on to say that these brutal tactics of Nasser's followers were "more primitive than anything from Nazi Germany during the worst days of Goebbels...
During the question period that followed, Kirk stated that although Egypt is not the sole center of Arab nationalism, it directs the movement and profits from the "facade of universalism" which conceals local self-interest...