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...efforts to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan and promised Carter that the Chinese would not question U.S. moves in the Middle East. He expressed "very, very strong" support for American efforts to acquire military bases in Kenya, Oman and Somalia as a counterweight to Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf region...
This is largely true of Lange and St. James as well and might be attributed to the earnest but flat script. While Lange purrs as beautifully as a Persian cat and St. James creates a perfect suburban mother, the trio never manages to build the kind of fast-talking, silly camraderie maintained even by Charlie's Angels...
...most distinguished foreign policy think tank, said recently: "It's time for the U.S. to listen to us." But what are the Europeans saying, beyond no? They may be right in arguing, for example, that it is no use blustering about the crucial importance of the Persian Gulf if the U.S. lacks the ready practical means to defend it-although one can just hear the screams about U.S. passivity if Washington had not "blustered...
Moreover, the Western nations are increasingly at the mercy of political events they cannot control. OPEC production could be sharply reduced or cut off entirely by Soviet incursions into the Persian Gulf, internal revolutions like Iran's or the disintegration of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. "Nobody can predict when and how the governmental, social and cultural systems in the various countries will change," writes Levy, "but change they will, and, more likely than not, by convulsions or revolutions...
Thus far, Western nations have been impotent in combating oil power. Levy argues that the Carter Doctrine, which calls for the U.S. to repel any attack on the Persian Gulf region, is unwieldy and potentially ineffectual. Support from Arab nations or even European allies would be questionable at best, and the first targets in any fighting would probably be the oil-producing facilities themselves...