Resumen de Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
The July 1958 coup in Iraq against the monarchy, which followed soon after Eisenhower forced Britain, France, and Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, buried once and for all the notion that Arab states would move into the American orbit. Because the coup-makers called themselves Free Officers and proclaimed they were inspired by Nasser, Eisenhower finally realized that his gamble had failed. [...]the Arab-Israeli conflict is not the be-all-end-all of the region's politics.
