Book Review
Quiet Diplomacy from Cairo to Tokyo in The Twilight of Imperialism is an autobiography of the Armin Meyer who served the U.S. for thirty years as a Foreign Service officer and an ambassador. As he was born in Indiana and grew up in Illinois and schooled in Ohio, he said, he was much influenced by the Midwest culture. Fort Wayne, Indian is his birth place, and he lived there for nine years. He was sent to live with his Aunts when his mother passed away. Lincoln, Illinois became his new home and he said it has always been a source of pride and inspiration to him. During the Great Depression, life was extremely hard for him; he took it by reinforcing his work ethnic by doing many part-time jobs. He worked fifty-six hours per week and attended school full time in his senior year.
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His duty was to make the host country acknowledges the state of Israel or allows Israel to enter the Middle Eastern family. In case of Egypt, he has a success story in bargaining with Egyptian government. Egypt is geopolitically significant country for Israel since they share border. The American policy on Egypt is buying Egyptian’s friendship toward Israel with the aids. Since the two nations barely has serious conflicts that threat the stability of the region, the case can be tell as Meyer’s effort got paid off. Iraqi story is somehow different. Iraq-American relation is fairly good before establishing the state of Israel. He said that, “Indicative of Iraq’s admiration for America was the outpouring of grief upon the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. The government declared three days of official mourning” (10-11). American recognizing of Israel altered the Iraq-American relation into a new phase. Iraqis’ reaction to that event was out rated. When he left Iraq, the country had its zenith on
Quiet Diplomacy from Cairo to Tokyo in The Twilight of Imperialism is an autobiography of the Armin Meyer who served the U.S. for thirty years as a Foreign Service officer and an ambassador. As he was born in Indiana and grew up in Illinois and schooled in Ohio, he said, he was much influenced by the Midwest culture. Fort Wayne, Indian is his birth place, and he lived there for nine years. He was sent to live with his Aunts when his mother passed away. Lincoln, Illinois became his new home and he said it has always been a source of pride and inspiration to him. During the Great Depression, life was extremely hard for him; he took it by reinforcing his work ethnic by doing many part-time jobs. He worked fifty-six hours per week and attended school full time in his senior year.
The very first …show more content…
His duty was to make the host country acknowledges the state of Israel or allows Israel to enter the Middle Eastern family. In case of Egypt, he has a success story in bargaining with Egyptian government. Egypt is geopolitically significant country for Israel since they share border. The American policy on Egypt is buying Egyptian’s friendship toward Israel with the aids. Since the two nations barely has serious conflicts that threat the stability of the region, the case can be tell as Meyer’s effort got paid off. Iraqi story is somehow different. Iraq-American relation is fairly good before establishing the state of Israel. He said that, “Indicative of Iraq’s admiration for America was the outpouring of grief upon the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. The government declared three days of official mourning” (10-11). American recognizing of Israel altered the Iraq-American relation into a new phase. Iraqis’ reaction to that event was out rated. When he left Iraq, the country had its zenith on