Word: gulf
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President Clinton's handling of the recent crisis in the Persian Gulf, for example, was entirely appropriate. Those who call constantly for the ouster of Sadaam Hussein seem oblivious to the first rule of containment strategy: thou shalt not create any power vacuums. If we remove Hussein, who takes over? There is no question that an unduly weakened Iraq would summon Iranian intervention...
...here to send a signal, and that signal is 'We are ready,'" said Colonel Robert C. Pollard. With its buildup in Kuwait last week, the U.S. very visibly made its latest move in the now-take-that contest with Iraq that has rattled nerves throughout the Persian Gulf and left American allies wondering who is winning what...
...Bahrain are mindful of growing fundamentalist and dissident oppositions that demand Muslim solidarity above all. Frustration over the lack of peace progress colors the reaction elsewhere in the Arab world. Fearing the impact of a real rift, Kuwaiti officials fanned out to make sure the rest of the gulf understood their support for U.S. military moves. "Their message," says a Western official, "was to get attention off the U.S. missile strikes and on Saddam's threat...
...Kuwaiti businessman and former government official. "But the rest worry that if he goes, Iran will step in, and that, my friend, is real trouble." Some of Kuwait's top leaders have counseled against deposing Saddam because he is needed as a bastion against Iran. Elsewhere in the gulf, that sentiment is widely endorsed as part of the regional balance of power. Many are concerned that Washington has lost sight of the larger picture. What the U.S. really has to handle is not one devil but two--and it may be letting one grow perilously large while it is trying...
...five long years, the Pentagon steadfastly insisted there was no evidence that U.S. soldiers were exposed to poison gas during the Gulf War. Assurances began to evaporate recently, and by last week the Pentagon's own count of G.I.s who may have been tainted by deadly fumes had risen so fast it reached potentially 1 out of every 100 Americans who served in the gulf...