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Americans and Europeans rarely ask themselves whether the widespread popular loathing of Western policy in the Middle East might actually be justified. In America, it is the 444-day hostage situation endured by US diplomats in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 that is seen as the outrage of the era, rather than the self-serving and illegal removal of Mossadegh three decades before. The
At the same time, Syria and Iraq have become a battlefield for a dangerous proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran – an escalating showdown between Sunnis and Shiites, the consequences of which cannot yet be predicted.
He persuaded the Americans to fund the construction, on the Nile, of the Aswan High Dam, a project crucial to Egyptian economic development. He also decided, though, to buy arms from Czechoslovakia. These two decisions set off the first great
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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