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Only two years after invading Kuwait, our old acquaintance Saddam Hussein (looking healthy and heavily re-armed by the French and the Chinese) has just welcomed his fellow Arab leaders--including the Emir of Kuwait and the King of Saudi Arabia--to the Arab League summit. Cordiality and warm embraces have replaced the fighting words of the "Kuwait incident," and the failure of the West to make progress on the Palestinian issue has reunited the Arabs in their hatred of the "Zionist occupying entity," Israel, and its allies in Europe and North America...
...last seconds of the embarrassingly long pause between his question and your answer, you measure the 'just' motives of the allied venture against the reality of the post-war Gulf, realize that little was achieved beyond placing Kuwait back in the hands of its emir, and words begin to fail...
...minimize Kuwaiti retaliation against those who collaborated with the Iraqis; and Gnehm who has insisted that the government's ministers cease promising the imminent return of services, something they are weeks if not months away from accomplishing. In a particularly significant triumph shortly before he welcomed home Kuwait's Emir last Thursday, Gnehm persuaded the electrical-repair teams to begin toiling around the clock; previously, they were putting in eight-hour days. "Imagine," says another Western diplomat, "Kuwait is falling apart, and something that obvious has to be counted as a diplomatic coup...
...Iraq, even if Saddam Hussein is removed from office, his successors are likely to form a military dictatorship or a theocratic regime. Meanwhile, there were hints from Kuwait that the Emir, having been so slow to return home, is now in no hurry to re-establish a national assembly...
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Kuwait's Emir Jaber al-Sabah would be deeply distressed to find democracy and Palestine in their backyard. But they could do nothing about it. Other countries with a basic interest in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, especially Syria and Egypt, would privately applaud Hussein...