Word: mideast
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...spots, dispatching an unprecedented number of planners and contractors overseas. With a great deal of excess baggage lying around, funding money rapidly dwindling and job markets tight at home, it seems logical to send people to the same place where all our money went a few years ago--the Mideast, for example...
...MIDEAST was never Henry A. Kissinger's area of expertise. During his nearly five years as President Nixon's adviser for national security, Kissinger devoted himself to almost every aspect of American foreign policy, even to the point of upstaging then Secretary of State William P. Rogers, except for this one. His reasons for delegating high-level Mideast policy-making to Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco seem to have been largely personal. He had published no less on this topic than on China or Vietnam, yet he was a dominant force in Asian affairs. Perhaps because political pressures before...
...situation there during his tenure as national security advisor was relatively calm, and there was no immediate pressure on Kissinger to declare his position on the Mideast, which of course suited him just fine. But, as luck would have it, just a little more than a month after his appointment as Secretary of State, the fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years began. Suddenly, the area of the world which he had signally avoided involving himself in because Kissinger's highest priority...
...area. Since the end of the war, he has, through the use of techniques know as the "step-by-step approach," or "shuttle diplomacy," achieved one military disengagement in the Golan Heights. Israeli troop withdrawals in the Sinai, and generally created the impression that the situation in the Mideast has significantly improved. However, Kissinger has yet to convince the Arabs to deal with Israel on a political rather than military level, and his last attempt at bringing about a third withdrawal of Israeli forces in Sinai failed when Egypt ruled out a declaration of non-belligerency toward Israel. Kissinger...
...Mideast conflict should be resolved through negotiations that deal with the fundamental issues, not the peripheral questions of how far regiments should pull back. Peace talks will be a long and arduous process, but they should not be written off and replaced by a one man show designed not to achieve peace, but to extend American influence...