Speech #810087002

If I were one of the Arabs. living as I saw them at Basra and in Azerbaijan during the war. I do not think I should be very particular as to the sort of ideology I embraced. because it could not be worse than what I had. That is why I say that the American State Department had better reconsider its policies. the discarded and outmoded colonistic policies of the British Foreign Office at No. 10 Downing Street. and begin to think in terms of America and of American foreign policy and of American foreign interests. and of solving the problem of Arab refugees by the very simple solution which is so obviously at hand. which will solve not only the problem of Israel. not only the problem of the Arabs. but also the problem of erecting the bulwarks in the Middle East against the penetration of the Communist ideology. which will as certainly overrun Arabia and the Middle East as it has the Orient. unless America shall in the not too distant future reconsider the policies it has pursued.