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 From: ukmole@bellsouth.net 
  
 From Wikipedia: 
  
 The operation to take the canal was highly successful from a military 
 point of view, but a political disaster due to external forces. Along 
 with Suez, the United States was also dealing with the near-simultaneous 
 Soviet-Hungary crisis, and faced the public relations embarrassment 
 (especially in the eyes of the Third World) of criticizing the Soviet 
 Union's military intervention there while not also criticizing its two 
 principal European allies' actions. 
  
 Thus, the Eisenhower administration* forced a cease-fire on Britain and 
 France, which it had previously told the Allies it would not do. Part of 
 the pressure that the United States used against Britain was financial, 
 as Eisenhower threatened to sell the United States reserves of the 
 British pound and thereby precipitate a collapse of the British 
 currency. After Saudi Arabia started an oil embargo against Britain and 
 France, the U.S. refused to fill the gap, until Britain and France 
 agreed to a rapid withdrawal. [5] There was also a measure of 
 discouragement for Britain in the rebuke by the Commonwealth Prime 
 Ministers St. Laurent of Canada and Menzies of Australia at a time when 
 Britain was still continuing to regard the Commonwealth as an entity of 
 importance as the residue of the British Empire and as an automatic 
 supporter in its effort to remain a world power. 
  
 British KIA = 16 
  
 Hardly British equivalent to Vietnam! 
  
 *After the Suez Crisis, the United States became the protector of most 
 Western interests in the Middle East. As a result, Eisenhower proclaimed 
 the "Eisenhower Doctrine" in January 1957, in relation to the Middle 
 East, the U.S. would be "prepared to use armed force...[to counter] 
 aggression from any country controlled by international communism." In 
 July 1958, he sent 15,000 Marines to Lebanon in a non-combat peace 
 keeping mission to stabilize the pro-Western government. They left in 
 October, 1958. 
  
 Molesworth 
  
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