U. S. Policy in the Persian Gulf
| Preis: | 16.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Relations, United States Committee on In) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from U. S. Policy in the Persian Gulf: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives One Hundred Fourth Congress Second Session September 25, 1996 House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m. in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Benjamin A. Gilman (chairman of the committee) presiding. Chairman Gilman. The Committee on International Relations will come to order. The Committee on International Relations meets today to discuss Administration policy in the Persian Gulf. In recent months, the region has been rocked by a number of serious incidents, including Iranian-inspired unrest in Bahrain, a major bombing at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia that cost the lives of 19 Americans, and Saddam Hussein´s incursion into the northern part of Iraq. These events, apparently catching the Administration off balance, have called into serious question the sustainability of our "dual containment" policy toward Iran and Iraq. The June bombing in Saudi Arabia has left that country reluctant to back a strong U.S. policy toward Saddam Hussein. This, in turn, is likely to make both Saddam in Iraq and the clerical regime in Iran believe that they can challenge U.S. policy in the Gulf with impunity. Some of the recent reports issued on the bombing in Dhahran suggest that the Administration could have done more to prevent that tragic occurrence. In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein saw our nation asleep at the switch. The Administration was cutting back its Provide Comfort flights to please Turkey, and had issued only a mild protest when Iran mounted an incursion into northern Iraq this past July. Saddam also saw the United States keep its efforts to mediate between feuding Kurdish factions at a low level, and fail to approve a mere $1 million for a neutral security force sought by the Kurds. During 1996, the Administration failed to force Iraq to allow U.N. weapons inspectors unimpeded access to weapons facilities. The U.N. Security Council issued only a mild condemnation of Saddam´s foot-dragging on the inspections. Saddam took his opportunity, and he struck successfully, regaining control of northern Iraq and ending U.S.-supported covert operations intended to unseat him. The Administration´s hands-off policy toward the unrest in Bahrain, which goes back to late 1994, emboldened Iran to meddle there. This past June, Bahrain uncovered an Iranian plot to destabilize their government and to install an Islamic republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
