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The United States considered using force to seize oilfields in the Middle East during an oil embargo by Arab states in 1973, according to British government documents just made public.
Interesting, but .... I don't they would have proceeded for various reasons
- back in 1968, Richard M. Nixon was elected thanks to a platform the top item was " to bring back the boys from Vietnam home".
- for re-election in '72, the item was still hight in the agenda.
- the american public at large was not at all prepared for another war,
- did not want it, while pondering on what had been going on in Vietnam
and Prez'Nixon tended to make some of his words true : "They are not Good Wars, every war is bad".
Regards
Alain
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