{"id":37189,"date":"2019-01-05T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37189"},"modified":"2018-12-15T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:52:58","slug":"qotd-nassers-anti-american-success-funded-by-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/05\/qotd-nassers-anti-american-success-funded-by-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Nasser’s anti-American success, funded by the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re familiar with the history of the region, you already know that Nasser aligned Egypt with the Soviet Union anyway and whipped up the Arab world into an anti-American frenzy. Ike\u2019s gamble failed. Nasser\u2019s heart was with Moscow all along. He cleverly used Eisenhower as a tool for his own ambitions and planned to stab the United States in the front from the very beginning.<\/p>\n

One of Nasser\u2019s deceptions should be familiar to anyone who has followed the painful ins and outs of botched Arab-Israeli peacemaking. Over and over again, Nasser used a strategy Doran calls \u201cdangle and delay.\u201d He repeatedly dangled the tantalizing idea of peace between Egypt and Israel in front of Eisenhower\u2019s eyes, only to delay moving forward for one bogus reason after another. He never planned to make peace with Israel or even to engage in serious talks.<\/p>\n

Nasser did, however, participate in theatrical arms negotiations with Washington that he knew would never go anywhere.<\/p>\n

Eisenhower wanted to equip the Egyptian army. Nasser wasn\u2019t stupid, though. He knew that Ike would attach strings to the deal. Egypt\u2019s soldiers would need to be trained by Americans, and they\u2019d be reliant on Americans for spare and replacement parts. Nasser really wanted to be armed by and tied to the Soviet Union, but had to pretend otherwise lest Eisenhower side with Britain, France, and Israel. So Nasser slowly sabotaged talks with the United States in such a way that made Washington seem unreasonable. That way, when he turned to the Soviet Union for weapons, he could half-plausibly say he had no choice.<\/p>\n

Nasser did such a good job pretending to be pro-American that he convinced the United States to give him a world-class broadcasting network that allowed him to speak to the entire Arab world over the radio. Washington expected him to use his radio addresses to rally the Arab world behind America against the Russians. Instead, he used it to blast the United States with virulently anti-American propaganda and to undermine the West\u2019s Arab allies. \u201cNasser,\u201d Doran writes, \u201cwas the first revolutionary leader in the postwar Middle East to exploit the technology in order to call over the heads of the monarchs to the man on the street. Suddenly the Hashemite monarchy [in Iraq and Jordan] found itself sitting atop volcanoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nasser strode the Arab world like a colossus after his American-made victory in the Suez Crisis, and he became more brazenly anti-American as he gathered strength. Conning Ike was no longer possible, but Nasser didn\u2019t need the United States anymore anyway.<\/p>\n

Michael J. Totten, “We Are Still Living With Eisenhower\u2019s Biggest Mistake”, The Tower Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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