Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
Abdullah II of Jordan. Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril. Viking Press, 2011.
This was one of the most accurate foreign policy assessments ever made. The next year the first Arab-Israeli war began when the state of Israel came into being. See {624566} for another accurate prediction.
the modern believe is that democracies are not prone to war, especially against other democracies. Seward, and some others believe that democracies can be pushed into war by politicians you do so for partisan political advantage. Politicians often have to show how tough they are.
Boggs was working on some compromise positions that could be taken by the party at the 1968 Democratic National Convention to provide the anti war wing of the party with something. The President found out and met with Congressman Boggs.
The CIA was supplying planes and pilots to assist anti-Government rebels in their efforts to overthrow Sukarno. Meanwhile, the Secretary of State and other American officials were insisting that America had no involvement in the Indonesian civil war. See {591337}.
Clinton had been spending the greater part of his time trying to mediate the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein is King of Jordan, reigning since 7 February 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, he is a 41st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad.