- Ronald Reagan is in the news again, this time in connection
with a statue the British have erected in his honor, but actually for services
rendered to the financial system of usury which Britain helped to perfect
in the eighteenth century, with the ascendance of the Bank of England and
London's own version of Wall Street, the financial district known as The
City.
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- How could super-conservative Reagan, the alleged paladin
of Christian Civilization, have merited laurels from the utopia of usurers?
Reagan's free trade doctrine and open borders disguised as the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli
Act, which granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, neutralized authentic
conservative Christian principles and policy initiatives in the decade
of the 1980s. Reagan became the agent of the Money-Power, justified by
his image as poster boy for anti-communism.
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- Americans have a bad habit of adoring their executioners
while turning a cold shoulder toward their statesmen. In the latter case
we are reminded of Dwight Eisenhower, who is only taken out of mothballs
nowadays when there is a World War II commemoration. His eight years as
President of the United States during the fabulous Fifties are as obscure
as the hula-hoop.
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- Eisenhower's finest hour was the Suez Canal crisis, when
he faced down Britain, the Israelis and their lobby in the U.S.
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- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared Reagan
to be the greatest friend of "Israel" ever to occupy the presidency.
He could not say the same about Dwight David Eisenhower. Ike headed a Republican
Party which for most of the twentieth century, until 1968, had been the
party of peace and non-intervention.
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- Much of this revisionist history is recounted in a new
book by David A. Nichols, Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis
Suez and the Brink of War (Simon and Schuster, 346 pages).
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- Andrew Bacevich, in his review of Eisenhower 1956, reminds
us of how different was the people's attitude toward foreign wars in the
mid-20th century: "That somewhere like Afghanistan might be worth
the life of even a single American would have struck residents of Des Moines
in the 1950s as preposterous."
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- The cast of villains which Eisenhower faced in 1956 was
similar to the dramatis personae of 2011. Fifty-five years ago the president
was hard-pressed to beat back "demands from Congress to give Israel
whatever it wanted."
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- Bacevich: "If Eisenhower continued to deny Israeli
arms requests, Ben-Gurion told one American diplomat, the US would be 'guilty
of the greatest crime in our history.' Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson
and other leading Democrats, along with Republicans such as Jacob Javits,
concurred, denouncing Eisenhower for his refusal to supply Israel's army.
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- "Eisenhower's medical problems provided (Secretary
of State John Foster) Dulles with his opening. After suffering a serious
heart attack in September 1955, the president underwent surgery the following
June to remove an obstruction in his small intestine...By the time of the
second medical crisis, Dulles had persuaded the president to abandon Alpha
for a new plan, codename Omega. Rather than expend political capital on
attempting to satisfy Egypt, the US would tilt towards Saudi Arabia. Egypt
possessed next to no oil; Saudi Arabia had oil in abundance. Egypt appeared
to threaten Israel's existence; the militarily weak Saudis did not. Omega
aimed at ensuring US access to oil, the lifeblood of Western prosperity,
while insulating Eisenhower from election-year attacks by the domestic
pro-Israel lobby.
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- "...The secretary of state fancied that he had maneuvered
(President Gamal Abdel) Nasser into 'a hell of a spot'. He miscalculated.
A week later, to cheering crowds in Alexandria, the Egyptian president
announced his intention to nationalize the Suez Canal, with construction
of the Aswan Dam to be financed by profits from the canal's operation.
'The money is ours and the Suez Canal belongs to us,' he declared. 'We
shall build the High Dam our own way.' This caught Washington totally by
surprise. Yet it was Britain and France, not the United States, that were
most affected by Dulles's failed gambit. In Israel, meanwhile, opportunists
glimpsed an opening.
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- "London and Paris viewed seizure of the canal as
cause for war. Anthony Eden, another ailing politician, saw it as 1938
all over again: a new Hitler was on the march. This time, though, there
would be no appeasement. Preserving Britain's claim to Great Power status
required Nasser's elimination, even if that meant using force. An Anglo-French
invasion force assembled in the Mediterranean, disregarding concerns expressed
by Eisenhower, who was now back in command of US policy. Judging the Egyptian
action (by Nasser) to be perfectly legal, the president chided Eden for
'making of Nasser a much more important figure than he is'. Eden was undeterred.
Although professing that he was willing to resolve the crisis peacefully,
he remained adamant for war.
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- "Military intervention in Egypt would constitute
an act of naked aggression, violating the United Nations Charter and recalling
the worst days of 19th-century European imperialism. It would also hand
a propaganda victory to the Soviet Union, self-professed supporter of Third
World countries aspiring to throw off the yoke of colonialism. To create
a veneer of legitimacy for the planned invasion, Britain and France invited
Israel to join their conspiracy. The proposition was audacious: in return
for the promise of French armaments and while claiming to act in self-defense,
Israel would launch a surprise attack against Egyptian forces in the Sinai
Peninsula and punch through towards the canal. Under the pretext of defending
a waterway of crucial importance to the international community, British
and French forces would then enter Egypt proper. Once established on the
ground, the invaders would accomplish the operation's real purpose, which
Eden privately described as 'the removal of Nasser and the installation
in Egypt of a regime less hostile to the West.' Within a day of receiving
this proposal on 1 September, (Israeli Prime Minister David) Ben-Gurion
accepted it enthusiastically. The countdown to war had begun.
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- "...British, French and Israeli officials blatantly
lied to their gullible American counterparts in the best diplomatic tradition.
As a result, the beginning of hostilities on 29 October one week
before the American elections again caught the administration completely
by surprise. Eisenhower was outraged and directed particular anger at Eden,
now castigated as a feckless double-crosser...
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- "Wasting no time...[P]resident (Eisenhower) impressed
on his former allies the price to be paid for acting without Washington's
assent... To block the canal, Nasser had ordered the sinking of ships filled
with rock and cement, thereby cutting Europe's oil lifeline. Eisenhower
now refused to draw on (then plentiful) US domestic reserves to make up
the difference. He also put the squeeze on the British economy, declining
to prop up the pound, which had come under assault. And when France and
Britain vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning their actions,
the president threatened to take the issue to the General Assembly.
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- "In the midst of this commotion, Eisenhower angrily
declared his intention to do the right thing, the implications for his
re-election be damned...the president repeatedly asserted his commitment
to equality before the law as the basis of peace. 'We cannot,' he insisted,
'subscribe to one law for the weak, another law for the strong; one law
for those opposing us, another for those allied with us'...
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- "Faced with American displeasure, the British and
French quickly caved in. Declaring a ceasefire and promising to withdraw
their forces...
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- "When their partners in crime folded, the Israelis
had little choice but to do the same...With the inadequacy of Britain and
France as patrons now evident, Israel turned again to courting the Americans,
an effort that paid off handsomely in the following decade, when the Democrats
regained control of the White House."
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