26-10-2014, 05:54 AM
If you read Mosley's book on the Dulles family you will see that FOster Dulles did what he did to England on the Suez crisis for two reasons:
First, they did not get approval from Ike in advance
Second, he wanted to teach the Brits once and for all who was in charge of the West.
England got the message.
Kennedy's foreign policy in the area was much more visionary, progressive, and well grounded in fact and history.
One point of comparison is Egypt. Dulles tried to marginalize Nasser because he recognized China and would not join CENTO.
Kennedy actually admired Nasser for that, and also his attempt at being a pan Arabist leader. So unlike Dulles, who favored Saudi Arabia and its monarchy over Nasser and his socialism, Kennedy actually backed Nasser in his importation of troops into Yemen in that civil war where Nasser directly challenged the Saudi Arabian monarchy for leadership of the Arab world.
I would be willing to wager very few people even knew about that, even here. This is what I mean about he cover up about who Kennedy was.
Now, that was very important. Why? Because after the explosion of Moslem radicalism in 1979 in Iran, Saudi Arabia became one of the not so secret funders of terrorism in the Middle East. But since we had cozied up to her, we really couldn't call them on it.
So right there, in one paragraph, there are two reversals of JFK's Middle East policy. Which has led to the mess we have there today.
First, they did not get approval from Ike in advance
Second, he wanted to teach the Brits once and for all who was in charge of the West.
England got the message.
Kennedy's foreign policy in the area was much more visionary, progressive, and well grounded in fact and history.
One point of comparison is Egypt. Dulles tried to marginalize Nasser because he recognized China and would not join CENTO.
Kennedy actually admired Nasser for that, and also his attempt at being a pan Arabist leader. So unlike Dulles, who favored Saudi Arabia and its monarchy over Nasser and his socialism, Kennedy actually backed Nasser in his importation of troops into Yemen in that civil war where Nasser directly challenged the Saudi Arabian monarchy for leadership of the Arab world.
I would be willing to wager very few people even knew about that, even here. This is what I mean about he cover up about who Kennedy was.
Now, that was very important. Why? Because after the explosion of Moslem radicalism in 1979 in Iran, Saudi Arabia became one of the not so secret funders of terrorism in the Middle East. But since we had cozied up to her, we really couldn't call them on it.
So right there, in one paragraph, there are two reversals of JFK's Middle East policy. Which has led to the mess we have there today.