Volume 27, Number 16 · October 23, 1980
The Middle Eastern Muddle
By Robert Graham
Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East
by Wilbur Crane Eveland
Norton, 382 pp., $14.95
Arabia, the Gulf and the West: A Critical View of the Arabs and Their Oil Policy
by J.B. Kelly
Basic Books, 530 pp., $25.00
Mistakes in foreign policy, like beauty, tend to be in the eye of the beholder, Nowhere is this more apparent than in Western policy toward the Middle East. Such partisan attitudes prevail on the respective Arab and Israeli causes that one side's right almost automatically becomes the other's wrong. All too often serious attempts to criticize policies attract a barrage of prejudice that merely obscures the issues at stake.
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