shuttlecock diplomacy

— Afghanistan, the traditional buffer state between the British and the Russian powers in Central Asia, passed into the hands of the communists of that country while the Americans were intensifying their shuttlecock diplomacy between the Arabs and Israel and, shortly after the Camp David peace process had borne some intended result with some climatic stimulants fot eh Afghan rebels, the Karmal government came to get planted in that country with the sharp follow-up of the Soviet military intervention.