Word: mideast
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...AMERICANS should reject Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's statement that the United States would consider the "use of force" in the Mideast to prevent "strangulation of the industrialized world" by the oil producing nations...
...force" means war. No one who recalls the barbarism and destruction of the "use of force" by the United States in Vietnam can accept it now, even in another context. Kissinger's remark, no matter how phrased, threatens the sovereignty and well-being of the people of the Mideast who cannot be held responsible for the policies of their autocratic rulers...
...United States attack the oil producing nations for economic "strangulation" when the U.S. and European business interests have been strangling the Mideast for decades--taking billions of dollars of petroleum wealth for a fraction of its value? American concern for a "fair price" did not stop the Central Intelligence Agency from helping to overthrow an Iranian government that tried to obtain one. The U.S. has also supported and encouraged the dictatorial regimes of the Arab sheikdoms. U.S. economic interests have combined with the autocratic political interests of the Arab rulers to ensure that the Mideast would remain a land...
...easier to get into a war than to get out of it." This is a tragic commentary on how little the chief foreign policy maker in the U.S. government really did learn from Vietnam, especially if he still considers the "use of force" an option in the Mideast. And no one should forget that President Ford says Kissinger's views "reflect...
...question of whether there will be 20 or 21 Arab states in the Mideast is morally trivial compared to the question of whether the Jewish people should possess its only home," he said...