Word: puppeteered
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...initiatives. Next month's display of military muscle may have scant effect on Libyan attempts to cause trouble in Egypt and the Sudan. U.S. support for Mubarak must strike a careful balance so as not to cast him as little more than a U.S. puppet, imperiling his fledgling hold on his country. The U.S. may also have difficulty delivering on its weapons promises, for the Pentagon has few arms to spare. Both M60 tanks and air defense missiles, for example, are in short supply...
...this Administration are completely disproportionate to the intended effect. They nullify it." In Bonn, officials privately called the approach heavy handed, fearing that it would attract attention to U.S. interests in Egypt, fan further Islamic unrest and lend substance to Soviet charges that the Egyptian government is an American puppet. Right on cue, the Soviet press accused the Administration of "crude interference" in Egypt's affairs and insisted that the U.S. was "feverishly stepping up war preparations in the Middle East...
Afghans have been fighting one another at least as long as they have been resisting foreign invaders. The mujahedin have the rallying point of a common enemy, the Soviets, and any regime unmistakably identified as Moscow's puppet may be doomed. But that does not mean that even with heavy increases in outside assistance, the rebels can defeat and expel the Soviets...
...prospect of an open-ended drain on its resources and ongoing embarrassment in its foreign policy. It also presents the U.S. with a dilemma. Should the U.S., in exchange for a Soviet pullout, press for a diplomatic settlement that might involve the formal recognition of Karmal's puppet regime and an end to outside support for the mujahedin? Or should Washington keep the covert military heat on and insist on unconditional withdrawal...
...gain from cooperation with the United States besides the degree of legitimacy that American backing gives in international circles. Pretoria evidently found the new Reagan administration's support helpful last January when it reneged in its agreement to submit the territory to U.N.-monitored elections. U.S. backing of its puppet government in Namibia bolstered the Botha regime's smug refusal to recognize the Soviet-backed Southwest Africa People's Organization as the best representative for the peoples of Southwest Africa. Reagan and the United States can feel justified in demanding the guarantee of minority rights in Namibia. But past experience...