The Agony and Ecstasy of an Empire: The United States in the Middle East
Economic hegemony has been the cornerstone of U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf since the end of the Second World War. America’s “special relationship” with Israel, a term first coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, is founded on business. Economic supremacy was also at the heart of the oil-for-security bargain that the United States sealed with oil-rich Saudi Arabia after World War II. More
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