Word: nasserism
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...foreign policy has wavered between favoring the Arab states in the Middle East and favoring Israel. Virtually all presidents have tried to emphasize American ties with Arab leaders at the beginning of their presidency. Eisenhower tried to cultivate Iraq's Qassam. Kennedy and Johnson tried to cultivate Egypt's Nasser. So did Nixon. Carter wooed the Shah of Iran and Reagan the Saudis...
...might actually rise. After all, he would be expected to lose a fight with a superpower, but he might well gain respect for standing up to the U.S. hard and long. In both the U.S. State Department and the Middle East, experts note apprehensively that Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1956 and Anwar Sadat in 1973 suffered severe military beatings yet gained heavily in prestige -- Nasser so much so that he became the predominant leader of the Arab world. True, the analogies are very far from perfect. The U.N. and U.S. in effect reversed Nasser's 1956 defeat after...
...That would be accompanied by some of the biggest tank battles ever fought, which would also be destructive and bloody. The allies might suffer huge losses so quickly that they would speedily sue for peace or perhaps accede to a panicky U.N. call for a cease-fire (shades of Nasser in 1956). If not, a drawn-out war might fan the worst American fears of "another Vietnam" and eventually build irresistible pressure on Bush to offer some sort of compromise settlement...
...third, more ominous answer is that Saddam knows he will lose but views defeat as preferable to surrender. "Even if he loses militarily," says a Bush adviser, Saddam may calculate that "he will survive and will have won for having stood up to the U.S." -- a political victory like Nasser's in & 1967. This last, apparently quite real, possibility confirms a Bedouin proverb: "A jackal is a lion in his own neighborhood." It is "increasingly obvious," says Ajami, that "Saddam sees himself as the avenger of the Arab nation, history's instrument to redress the slights visited on Arabs...
...Most Kuwaitis were spoiled beyond imagination," says Saud Nasser al- Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. Except at KPC and the investment office, lean and mean because they were (and still are) the lifeblood of the country, merit counted for nothing. "There was no accountability," says Khalifa, "because government employees were promoted automatically. It was impossible to fire civil servants. Several years ago the parliament passed an amazing law. In effect, it said that if someone was performing poorly, he would have been fired. But, says this law, since he was not fired, then by definition he was performing...