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To: DavesM who wrote (7219)	10/24/2001 12:05:22 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 281500

For all his petty domestic shortcomings, Richard Nixon was a foreign policy genius, navigating the United States and the world through rough Cold War times with the Soviet Union and China, and a hot war in Vietnam, with Henry Kissinger's help. Given what we're faced with today, doesn't seem he had it too darned easy, does it?

To: DavesM who wrote (7219)	10/24/2001 12:25:25 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

And IMHO your statement is incomplete... The reason the US became a greater supporter of Israel, was because the Soviets were spending incredible sums of money supporting Sadat. The Soviets destabilized the entire balance of power by providing Sagger anti-tank missiles to the Egyptians. With such weapons, the Egyptians were able to gain the initiative and neutralize the Israeli armored forces when they crossed the Suez in 1973. Additionally, the Soviets refused US efforts to establish a ceasefire since they felt their two proxy states, Egypt and Syria were on the verge of utterly defeating Israel, and then suddenly changed their minds once the war turned against them. (remember, before the 1973 war, there was relatively little US military aid) So US policy DID NOT suddenly change in a vacuum. Arab aggression was financed and spurred on by the Soviets. I found this little bit of trivia interesting since everyone likes to bring up "UN resolutions" and how Israel supposedly ignores them. But it seems they UN only passes them when it's "convenient" to do so. The 1973 war stated on October 6th, but it took the UN until October 22nd to pass a resolution calling for a cease fire: us-israel.org "The Soviet Union showed no interest in initiating peacemaking efforts while it looked like the Arabs might win. The same was true for UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. (Waldheim's service with a World War II German army unit guilty of war crimes in the Balkans resulted in his being barred from entering the United States after his election as President of Austria.) On October 22, the Security Council adopted Resolution 338 calling for "all parties to the present fighting to cease all firing and terminate all military activity immediately." The vote came on the day that Israeli forces cut off and isolated the Egyptian Third Army and were in a position to destroy it.2" Hawk