Word: mideast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confrontation and we lose a few Marines, Congress will take action to get them out of there," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin. Added Glenn: "I don't think the American people are prepared to see body bags coming back from the Mideast...
President Reagan has an opportunity to clarify the goals of Camp David and the obligation to convince Israel that with American support. Israeli security is not necessarily threatened by a particular territorial concession. The vision motivating the tortured Sinai transfer last week must be preserved for the Mideast conflict...
...prime minister and viewed even more blithely by the United States. Israel can be excused for perceiving its isolation and believing that it has shouldered an unreciprocated (except for Anwar Sadat) burden for peace. The burdens of war by contrast have readily been accepted by all parties in the Mideast conflict, whether extremist or expansionist, pan Islam or pan Arab revolutionary or reactionary...
That happened last November. Previously, the Reagan Administration's cornerstone of its Mideast strategy (insofar as one could be divined) involved an all-out attack on Lybia's Muammar Qaddifi. Saudi Arabia, obviously very impressed with the tacit quid pro quos which attend a bilateral arms deal, obliged by restoring diplomatic relations with Libya. And when Weinberger arrived in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, he negotiated all night to get the Saudis to sign a communique supporting the much-heralded anti-Soviet consensus. Through perserverance, Weinberger won a remarkable concession: While the Saudis resisted signing the communique, they agreed that...
...become a battle of impossibilists. The U.S. has not courted moderates (except Arab monarchical "moderates") on any side of the Mideast conflict. As a result of this callousness, Begin's fears have become prophecies, even if they are self-fulfilling...