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One of the problems with Kissinger's political philosophy of reliance on a balance of power outcome to foreign affairs was that it put into a Cold war context all foreign problems. As Dallek writes, in the Middle East as in South Asia and Lat in America, "Nixon and Kissinger thought of the area principally in terms of Soviet American tensions. 'The difference between our goal and the Soviet goal in the Middle East,' Nixon said, 'is very simple but fundamental. We want peace. They want the Middle East. . . . We are for Israel because Israel in our view is the only state in the Mideast which is pro freedom and an effective opponent to Soviet expansion. . . . The Soviets are the main cause of Middle East tensions. . . ."
Clearly, the Kissinger Nixon approach to the Middle East was flawed for a number of reasons. First, it put the conflict in the area in Soviet American Cold War terms, when, as stated, the conflict is centuries old and predated the Cold War, therefore. Second, it conveniently byp
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