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In his brilliant book Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives,
Allen Bullock analyses the policies adapted by the United States and
Great Britain in regard to Russia. Notwithstanding the fact that
Stalin's contribution to the Commencement of the Second world
War, as in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement, is undisputed, he
led the Western World to agree to the division of Europe. "Central and
Eastern Europe was governed by satellite regimes of the Soviet Union, a
Stalinist order in place of the earlier, imposed on them by Hitler and
the Nazis". All this with the acquiescence and support of the west. The
United States and England proved to lack foreign policy. They succeeded
when military might was required [Germany] and failed when Diplomacy was
the instrument [Russia].
˜Amazing as it may sound; this
phenomenal scheme was repeated through the pages of the twentieth
century. Korea, or the Crisis in Cuba, as accurately described by
Michael R. Beschless in his new book Kennedy Vs. Khrushchev, The Crisis years,
1950-1963 Vietnam, where a war of a generation, melted in diplomacy.
The Paris Peace treaty orchestrated by Henry Kissinger did not save the
south; The Embassy crisis in Teheran. To add insult to injury, the
United States will compensate Iran for military purchasing, not
delivered because of the crisis {The New York Times, 20th November,
1991.) United States was diplomatic and gained nothing. The Mullahs
have won in all aspects; The United States-succeeded in a war against
Iraq on behalf of Kuwait, but failed to see that Syria implemented a
similar policy in Lebanon Because Saddam Hussein used force. Haffas
el-Assad adopted "diplomacy"; James Baker set in Paris around the same
table with representatives of the Khmer Rouge, and thus recognized the
legitimacy of the "Nazis of the East".
If Israel allows
the United States to initiate a peace plan, it might after end up like
Poland after the war, Like Viet-Nam peace treaty, or like so many
American Hostages whose humiliation was never revenged.
Zalli Jaffe
22nd November,1991,
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