OTSuez. (was nukes ..tunnels.. boom)

Jonathan White says
> > bullet. I suggest you consult a good late C20
> > history book about the Suez
> > crisis

John Atkinson said
> Didn't that backfire rather badly?

		   Yes it did as most older Brits still remember. A
perhaps
badly considered colonial exercise much like that of the US in Panama,
was
followed by a very successful military operation that achieved most of
it's
objectives within the operational time frame. It went wrong as you put
it
when the USA and other oil based economies crapped their oil based
economic
pants, left their former allies in the shit and supported diplomatically
the
Arab nations that Mr Atkinson loves to denigrate on this list. It's
worth
noting that the strength the Arab nations and Egypt in particular got
from
this US led boost gave Nasser the required impetus and standing in the
Arab
world  to infect the whole Arab sphere of influence with his own rampant
brand of Arab nationalism.
	 Maybe, just maybe, the whole saying that you reap what you sow
is
perfectly apt here. One wonders if Suez had had a different result if
the
whole bloody middle east mess, Islamic fundamentalism and even the
events of
sept 11 might have taken a different course.   That of course would have
required the same level of unfailing allied commitment that the UK has
shown
the US in the last 30 years. (I do enjoy alternative histories)

   Bob DeAngelis
(an older gamer)
PS please note this post is without bias, rancour, bad language or
disrespect for others opinions, nations or religious beliefs.