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b2d0762948 In addition, the U.S. (June 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) . Promoted by business leaders during a period marked by widespread economic insecurity, social reform activism, and labor unrest, it was based on the idea that Americans should look not to the government or to labor unions but to the workplace benefits provided by private-sector employers for protection against the fluctuations of the market economy.[20] Companies employed these types of welfare policies to encourage worker loyalty, productivity and dedication. (Bakhtiar may have sought Iraqi aid precisely because "of Washington's refusal to support the nascent Iranian opposition".) What ultimately convinced the Iranian leadership of "American complicity in any Iraqi attack" was the July 9 Nojeh coup plot, a failed military coup d'tat against Khomeini funded by Iraqi intelligence through Bakhtiar (the Iraqis may have informed the Iranian authorities in advance, as they understood "the damage the subsequent purge would inflict on the Iranian military"). The hasty movement of the remaining units up to the front immediately after the beginning of major hostilities was the activity that tended to nudge me toward the abrupt scenario in which Saddam ordered the attack before all military preparations had been completed."[123] In sum, "it is unlikely that the United States was ever in possession of clear evidence of Saddam's intention to invade Iran. The Nation.
Many in the administration chafed when Jordan circulated a "questionnaire" that read more like a loyalty oath. Global Policy Forum. A common argument against the treaties was that the United States was transferring an American asset of great strategic value to an unstable and corrupt country led by an unelected but popularly supported General (Omar Torrijos). Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although the Carter administration drastically underestimated the scale of Saddam's plans, the disorganized and apparently impetuous nature of the invasion, with much of the Iraqi army still in garrison, and occurring in the context of border skirmishes and aggressive propaganda, muddied the waters for U.S. Jackson and Representative Morris K. Environment[edit].
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