Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Akins believed that the Administration did too little too late. Said he: "Every pro-American Iranian I know says the same thing: 'For God's sake, why didn't you put pressure on the Shah earlier to make concessions?' If he'd made the concessions a year earlier that he made in December, he could have looked forward to the ten or 15 years of tranquil reign that the CIA predicted...
...Viet Nam syndrome is not broadly shared in the U.S., that the American people went through a psychological trauma at the gas station in 1974, and they are damned tired of appearing to be pushed around. I believe the American people have largely put Viet Nam behind them: they know what we are talking about when we speak of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula being a vital interest...
...power to protect its friends and vital interests there. Said Helms: "We're talking now about power politics, and since we are, let's not apologize for the fact; let's talk about it. We have all kinds of people who would be glad to know that the U.S. is in there and committed, and I think we would find, like a magnet, a whole lot of those filings coming toward us." There are many steps that the U.S. could take with both allies and opponents. Panelist Dale Tahtinen argued that Iraq, an important oil producer...
...only in terms of oil but in the loss of facilities that monitored Soviet missiles. Still, the Islamic government installed by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is likely to be anti-Communist as well as antiWestern, and nonaligned in a true sense. Jim Bill, one of the few Americans who know well some of the people around the Ayatullah, ticked off a list of several who are American-educated, basically conservative, and men the U.S. could deal with to help get Iran's oil flowing again to the West...
Helms: Jim, it is fine to say that, but the minute you're in touch with them, and you're an official representative of the United States Government, it entails a commitment, and that is the hardest thing I know to control. I have been a practitioner of this art and you have not been, so take my word...