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...sliding toward lassitude." He left no doubt which way he thought the tide was running: "Precariously situated countries in the Middle East see the Soviet-supported Cuban advance coming up through Africa to Ethiopia right across the Red Sea. To them the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan now overshadows the Persian Gulf like the northern arm of a great pincer. And they see no effective resistance. Somewhere, somehow, the United States must show that it is capable of rewarding a friend or penalizing an opponent." Otherwise, he said, the "inevitable effect is to accelerate the demoralization of all moderate allies, driving...
...health research. There will be a freeze on federal hiring, and the number of federal employees will drop 20,000 by next October. Saturday mail deliveries may well be stopped. Carter, who had pledged in his January State of the Union message to resist any Soviet move into the Persian Gulf by military force if necessary, seemed to draw back even on his plans to raise defense spending. "The Defense Department will not be immune from budget austerity," he declared, but he said that the nation will meet its financial commitment to its NATO allies. That implies an increase...
According to an old Persian proverb, "There are three things I have never seen-the eye of an ant, the foot of a snake and the charity of a mullah...
...Shah of Iran on New Year's Eve, 1977, Carter toasted his host for his "great leadership." A year later, when mobs were rioting in Tehran, Carter helped nudge the Shah into exile. During this crisis, Carter ordered a U.S. naval task force to sail toward the Persian Gulf, then ordered it back to the Philippines...
Calling the registration "intrusive, redundant and unnecessary," Lynn added that registration could lead directly to the possibility of sending American troops to the Persian gulf to defend "non-existant" American interests there...