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...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 friends toward neutralism and neutrals toward radicalism...
...cartel's pincer ploy on prices and production is especially galling for the once mighty international oil firms, which for decades controlled both the price and the quantities of oil that moved in world markets. Instead of dictating terms to their suppliers, the companies now find themselves reduced almost to the role of bystanders. The turn-around in oil trade began shortly after the 1973-74 oil embargo. The Europeans and Japanese, growing uneasy about leaving their energy supplies dependent upon the Seven Sisters, began scouring the world for government-to-government oil deals. These permitted their national petroleum...
Presumably, then, draft registration would only be of use in the event of war--but what sort of war? Carter's coupling of the registration proposal with his new doctrine has created the fuzzy impression that somehow draft registration will help when the Soviets close their geo-political pincer on the Persian Gulf. But it's obvious a Carter Doctrine war would require equipment far more than men. It would be a war of relatively small forces relying on sophisticated weaponry as well as air and sea support--the kind of war Israel has been winning for decades. It demands...
During the Islamabad conference of Foreign Ministers from Islamic states, the Saudis led the fight to condemn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Saudis' specific fear is that Moscow has embarked on a pincer-like squeeze of the Persian Gulf states by moving into Afghanistan and later, conceivably, Iran, even as the Soviets are buttressing their military outposts in South Yemen and Ethiopia...
When the Shah of Iran looks at a map of his region he has a nightmare vision. He sees a Communist pincer movement closing in on him from South Yemen in the south and Afghanistan in the east. He once remarked, "Whenever I get up in the morning, I always ask what happened the night before on the Arabian peninsula and in Afghanistan." The Shah is convinced that the crisis facing his nation is the result of a cunningly executed master plan conceived years ago by the Soviet Union...