![]() ![]() The gamble of “Ike’s Gamble,” by Michael Doran, is the determined wooing of Nasser by the Eisenhower administration over its first four years in office. But before that, Dwight Eisenhower and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt. Its proponents “regarded it not as an intellectual construct but as a description of reality itself.”īarack Obama and the ayatollahs’ Iran? Yes. This strategic perception gripped its believers so strongly that such terms as “worldview” fail to do it justice. ![]() By squeezing Israel and other allies for concessions, the United States could prove its own good faith - and get on the right side of history. Anyway, like it or not, the troublesome Muslim state represents the future, its local enemies outdated legacies of the past. But the new team believes that much of this bad behavior is a response to provocations by the West and by Israel. True, that leading Muslim state has a bad habit of sponsoring terrorism and threatening important allies. The new team’s big idea: a bold diplomatic overture to the region’s leading Muslim state. Listen to whether this tale is familiar.Ī new administration comes to power, convinced that its predecessor has made a hash of Middle East policy. This book is subversively revisionist history with sharp relevance to the present. IKE’S GAMBLE America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East By Michael Doran 292 pp. Below, David Frum’s review of “Ike’s Gamble,” followed by Evan Thomas’s review of “Blood and Sand.” ![]()
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