Word: nasserism
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...Eden had been allowed to cut Nasser down to size at Suez, our newspapers would still be front-paging Bernard Goldfine instead of Marine landings in Lebanon...
...around the world when U.S. marines splashed ashore in Lebanon had died away. The immediate U.S. objective of propping up the legitimate government of Lebanon had been achieved-and without gunfire. The West's thrust into the Middle East had temporarily jolted even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into comparative sobriety. The Russians had responded to the West's show of force with mere bluster-a fact that in time may sink into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other...
...Jordan-buttressed by 2,000 British paratroops-were still untouched by the revolutionary fire in Iraq; 2) U.S. allies from Iceland to the Philippines got proof that the U.S. would deploy and fight if need be to save small friendly powers from subversion; 3) Arab nationalism, whether led by Nasser or not, had been shown that...
...conflicted with the free world's cold-war defenses; 4) world Communism had been shown that the U.S. was not deterred by Russian rocket rattling from deploying into the Middle East, and Middle East military men could not help noticing that the Russians had notably not intervened. To Nasser, in Moscow after the Iraq revolt last fortnight, Khrushchev boasted that he had weapons that could turn the Sixth Fleet into "coffins of molten steel for its sailors," but Khrushchev's Security Chief Ivan Serov nonetheless warned Nasser to fly home overland, because "your plane dare not fly over...
Says Admiral Holloway just as flatly: "There is outside aid and there is infiltration from without here, but it would not appear to me that Nasser will mount and launch any kind of formal intervention in Lebanon. Nor do I think the Soviet Union will intervene. I think there will not be a third world war arising out of this situation...