comment on Zionism discussion

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>  And what good for the United States--speaking as a flinty-eyed State
>>  Department realist--is "condominium" over the western Middle East?
>>  Giving both Egypt and Israel an excuse to avoid war in order to
>>  receive aid is a good thing from the idealist perspective (to which I
>>  belong). But the U.S.'s strategic interests are in the eastern Middle
>>  East.
>.
>If you want to ensure the existence and safety of pliant regimes in the
>oil-rich states of the eastern Middle East you can't have a mighty Arab
>state in the western Middle East run by people who oppose all your goals and
>plans for the region. Nasser gave Iran, Iraq and the Gulf states a lot of
>headaches in his day......
>
>Seth

So? U.S.-Saudi relations were much smoother back in the 1960s than in 
the 1980s. Unless, that is, you think Nasser aimed at conquering the 
entire Middle East?...

Brad DeLong