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By March 1956, the United States began to view the direction of Egypt’s policy as hindering its objectives, and attempted to defuse the nationalist challenge. The new policy, code-named Omega, was based on existing assumptions as Washington continued to seek to impose its aims on Cairo. While in the past few years that goal would have been sought through selective cooperation, now it would be accomplished by a program of gradual coercion. Thus, either the Egyptian government would have to accept the administration’s aims or face increasing marginalization. Omega, however, failed to achieve its intended result since the Egyptian regime neither altered its policies nor saw a reduction of its influence. The Eisenhower administration simply failed to understand that just as Egyptian pan-Arabism was too powerful a force to be subsumed in the Cold War framework, so too it would prove too resilient to be reoriented or marginalized through punitive measures.
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Notes
Wilbur C. Eveland, Ropes of Sand: America’s Failure in the Middle East (New York, 1981), 169–70.
Nadav Safran, Saudi Arabia: the Ceaseless Quest for Security (Cambridge, 1985), 70–83.
Charles Johnston, The Brink of Jordan (London, 1972), 8.
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Takeyh, R. (2000). Operation Omega and the Policy of Antagonism. In: The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981788_5
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