[muawiyah]

Staff people usually have very substantial input into the development of any policy.

We humor our politicians when we praise them for having such marvelous foresight as to invent the internet, build Boulder dam, construct the interstate highway system, etc.

I think you get my point.

[Pelham]

Staff people usually have very substantial input into the development of any policy.

We humor our politicians when we praise them for having such marvelous foresight as to invent the internet, build Boulder dam, construct the interstate highway system, etc.

I think you get my point.

I see the point clearly. You can't find anything to support your claim that Eisenhower was responsible for the Anglo-Soviet plan for Iraq.

Small surprise there. Churchill and Stalin weren't the sort to defer carving up the near east to an American military subordinate. FDR was their coequal, not General Eisenhower.

If you bother to read Ike's memoir of his tour as SACEUR you'll learn he was a bit busy with prosecuting the war against Germany. He didn't have much spare time to spend instructing the Brits and Soviets on what to do with their territorial ambitions. Or maybe he simply forgot to include his role as master of the globe.