Chapter 959: Sneering
Unlike before, when he was very confident in facing reporters, this time Reagan just appeared with an embarrassment and embarrassment that could not be concealed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is the most difficult moment for him since he ascended to the presidency of the United States. Otherwise, he would not have talked to Nixon on the phone every day, struggling to find a way to get out.
The media in the United States can really kill people, Nixon had to step down because of the Watergate scandal, and Nixon is still troubled by the original trouble. If he can't survive this time, he will definitely not be better than Nixon.
In fact, before this, the White House had already started infighting in the past few days, and no one was willing to come out to stand up for the thunder. Secretary of Defense Casper? Weinberg made a public statement that he had already commented on the adventure in a National Security Council memo: "This is absurd." CIA Director William? Joseph? Casey said he didn't do much.
As for Reagan's deputy, Bush is also trying to avoid having nothing to do with this incident. No one wants to be pushed out to top the thunder! But each of them knew that sooner or later someone would have to come out.
"I'm saddened that something like this has happened. It's some basic intelligence that has led to today's problems, but I have to say that no one would have thought that Libya would commit such hooliganism, which is very much in line with my mad dog assessment to Gaddafi, and the United States must not compromise on this matter, and that's it. Reagan said with a serious face.
Reagan finally chose to find a high-ranking official with a high status to sacrifice, of course, he had to get through today's difficulties first. In addition to internal and media instability, Reagan's current situation is also the move of the Soviet Union, which controls all the Americans in Libya, which is very embarrassing for Reagan, who has just completed Operation Golden Canyon.
It stands to reason that the United States has just completed Operation Golden Canyon, and the time of a great victory should be a time of great morale, but this matter has not been used by the United States, and the Libyan hostage crisis that followed will dissipate this victory. Reagan's move to revive American morale not only failed to do so, but further aggravated the suspicions of American public opinion.
After Reagan finished speaking, reporters from major US media took turns asking questions, and the questions became more and more acute one after another, even pointing directly at Reagan himself, from the necessity of military action to the safety of American hostages, besieging the US president like a series of cannons, and Time magazine claimed to be the most powerful person in the world.
"We will communicate with the Soviet side to rescue our people without damaging the image and interests of the United States." Reagan said this sentence almost with a flushed face. Now that the Soviet military forces have intervened, it is no longer the same as when Libya itself faced the United States, don't look at it as just a police corps, the number of which is only two thousand. But this is the problem of two concepts, and the problem has changed from Libya to the Soviet Union.
Even if Reagan still wanted to die and prepare for armed rescue, no one would agree. The United States can fight Libya without any scruples, but it will definitely not use military means to test whether the Soviet Union can fight it.
Faced with the situation of the Soviet armed forces in Libya, Reagan had to talk to what he saw as an evil empire. For him, the president who is trying to revive the United States, the embarrassment and discomfort in his heart cannot be known to others.
"Haha! Asking for help from the evil empire you call for? Reagan, you also have today's ......" The laughter belonging to the head of the big secret service resounded throughout the Kremlin, and Serov's ridicule was undisguised, and he thought that the most anti-Soviet American president in 30 years really did not know how to compromise. Now it seems that the degree of hardness is also very limited.
When the news of Reagan's plan to talk to the Soviet Union reached Moscow, Serov learned that this Alzheimer's disease would also compromise, and it seemed that it had not yet developed to an advanced stage.
After a long time, he restrained his smile, and as he got older, it was tiring to keep smiling all the time, "Follow the process!" Serov said calmly to the cadres who came to ask for instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Following the process means to follow the relevant regulations, rescue with the greatest sincerity, fully understand Libya's position and, of course, the position of the United States, and try our best to build a bridge and provide a platform for communication between the United States and Libya.
This narrative is actually a bit verbose, and of course there are more accurate statements to the topic, drag it on......
The Soviet Union could have continued to manipulate the hostage issue with maximum action and roasted Reagan on the fire. First roast it for a few months or half a year, and then release a little news disgusting Reagan if it's okay, and when the time is almost right, send this batch of people back to the United States.
First disgusting for a few months, the longer this matter lasts, the more Reagan's situation will not improve, Serov judged that the hostage crisis would not let Reagan step down, so let Reagan maintain a state of shouting and beating for a few months.
Moscow time is already the second day, and the Kremlin responds to Reagan's initiative that ensuring the safety of the hostages is an international responsibility that the Soviet Union should shoulder, and is willing to cooperate with the anti-Soviet American president for the time being, because the crisis of the hostages is obviously more important than the nonsense of one or two anti-Soviet politicians.
In the statement, the Soviet Union also rarely shouted two sentences of human rights, but saying such things at this time embarrassed the Americans even more. Reagan's appeal to the Soviet Union was not only embarrassing, but for many Americans, the worst enemy was equally unacceptable.
This embarrassment pervades many American conversations, and Serov sees only a small move in Libya's counter-action, which eventually leads to a reversal and evaporates the morale of the American Golden Canyon operation.
Serov has been appointed Foreign Minister Gromyko with full responsibility for the rescue of the Libyan hostages, and at the same time again began to carry out micro-manipulations, directly over countless levels, so that the secret police corps already in Libya, preventing any American media and individuals from approaching the American hostages, is directly responsible to Chebrikov in Moscow. Delay as much as possible, and never let this matter end soon.
It's actually very easy, it's hard to do a good thing, it's not easy to break a thing? Relations with Libya, relations with the United States, and relations with the Soviet Union are to be considered. Gaddafi came to power and announced the repossession of the U.S. Wheeles airbase in Libya, expelling 6,000 U.S. soldiers. The United States was outraged by Gaddafi's decision, and Libya's subsequent proximity to the Soviet Union made it even more difficult for Americans to accept.
Colonel Gaddafi announced that the Gulf of Sidra from Benghazi to the western part of the Misleda Gulf belong to Libyan waters, and any ships sailing in these waters should leave the waters or face an attack by Libya, and the US Navy's Sixth Fleet often conducts exercises here. Although the United States was very tough, the United States, which was on the defensive at the time, did not want any conflict with Libya, so in fact, US warships rarely entered the Sidra Bay since then.
The Soviet Union has never opposed any country being pro-Soviet, the old imperialists are all allies of the United States, and the Soviet Union can only rely on countries in the third world that have developed well to catch up, plus the Soviet Union has stood on the side of the Arab side in several Middle East wars, and the relationship between the two is naturally becoming more and more harmonious, of course, Libya is not important in the eyes of the Soviet Union, and Gaddafi's pro-Soviet policy is not very obvious.
But since the Golden Canyon operation, Libya has been very important, and it is already a place worthy of the Soviet Union's key support, and it will not just support itself, the Soviet Union's Central and Allied countries, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq have also sent armed forces into Libya at the same time, which is on the surface of the three countries to help Arab brothers resist US aggression.
On the surface, Gaddafi used his personal friends to win the support of his Arab brothers and ushered in an Arab coalition of more than 20,000 people, at least in terms of momentum, it can be regarded as winning a little respite for Libya. The Soviet Union has stated that Libya's actions have nothing to do with the Soviet Union, and that this is an internal affair of the Arab countries themselves.
The capital of Libya, US Secretary of State George? Pratt? Schultz had already led a team to this desert country, and it was a week after Operation Golden Canyon, and it was at the repeated request of Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko that the trip finally took place. Pratt? Schultz himself did not want to come over to wipe his ass and had to come.
Of course, Scholz has a reason not to come, and the current United States cannot move even if it is caught by the Soviet Union. When he came to Libya as the US secretary of state, he not only had to suffer from the hostility of the Libyan people, but also put his life in danger.
The most important thing is that Schultz came over this time completely to play a supporting role for Gromyko, and used his position as US Secretary of State to fulfill Gromyko's help, who wants to do this kind of thing? From another point of view, Gromyko was reluctant to come, but what could be done about it.
"On the issue of the Libyan hostage crisis, we will fully respect Libya's wishes, and it is certainly not right to use hostages to threaten a country in the first place, and the Soviet Union will also communicate with Libya on this point. Everything is premised on the rescue of ordinary people, and of course we respect Libya as well as the position of the United States. It may be a difficult negotiation, but I will do my best to defuse this crisis, and I believe that this is also what Mr. Schultz thinks. ”
Gromyko's words made Scholz next to him very uncomfortable, and in the end he could only state his position, from today onwards, even if he will not stay in Libya every day, he will attend the negotiations here every once in a while, basically tied up here until all the American hostages are released.
"President Reagan's idea may be to stand in the American position. There are two sides to everything, and the decision at the time cannot be criticized for the results, but I still think it is a bit reckless to deal with a military strike. "Reagan, the leader of the evil empire Serov, who is most hated now, had to listen to the cynicism of the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union every day.