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...Saudis are interested in lessening the rigors of justice. Even liberals tend to believe the country's methods deter crime better than those of the West. The prohibitions on drinking and other vices do not rankle much. Many simply get around them by leading double lives: pious in public, more freewheeling at home and on overseas forays. Bootleg liquor is easily available. The euphemism for home-brew whiskey is "brown," while gin is called "white"; at parties people will say, "I'll have some brown in a + Coke," or "I'll have some white in a Sprite...
Bush has repeatedly said he ordered American forces to Saudi Arabia only to deter Iraqi aggression and, if necessary, repel it. For defensive purposes, the military coordination at most levels seems workable. Schwarzkopf and the Saudi commander, Lieut. General Khalid bin Sultan, meet several times a day, as do their main deputies. U.S. ground troops have been assigned to a sector along the gulf and south of Kuwait, while 30,000 Saudi and Islamic troops are deployed west of U.S. positions and in the far north, a thin line between the Americans and the Iraqi and Kuwaiti borders. U.S., Saudi...
...moment, an uneasy equilibrium was reached. By most accounts, the U.S. had pumped sufficient firepower into Saudi Arabia to deter an Iraqi attack but not enough to retake Kuwait by force. The interim was giving both sides time to work out just what they were willing to fight or settle for. For the U.S., the choice was between defusing the immediate crisis -- either by waiting for the sanctions to work or by accepting some kind of a settlement -- or getting rid of the menace in Baghdad once and for all. For Saddam, the question was whether to retreat now with...
...first assignment for arriving U.S. units, said Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, is "to deter any further Iraqi aggression" and, if deterrence fails, "to defend Saudi Arabia against attack." Some in Washington are worried that the dispatch of U.S. troops might provoke Saddam Hussein to launch a pre- emptive blitz. "He sees us coming," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "He could try to seize the oil fields and hold them hostage before we have enough men there to stop...
...poured thousands of troops into Saudi Arabia to stare down the Iraqis gathered threateningly at the border with Kuwait. Bush was betting that the very presence of G.I.s would deter Saddam from ordering his army forward. At the same time, the U.S. force served credible notice that Bush was indeed willing to put his own men at risk to protect the sanctity of the gulf states -- and their...