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...only the beginning. When the defeated troops return home with their stories of what really happened on the battlefield, Saddam's claims of a glorious victory will be further undermined. "There will be a lot of opposition to Saddam inside Iraq," observes Jamal Sha'ir, a former Jordanian Cabinet minister. "People will feel, 'You are the one who sank us. You can't be the one to correct things...
...have-nots" as well as the naive "haves." Dear fellow Arab Kuwaiti (whether you like it or not), let's not fall into the jaws of the sharks you were talking about, the Arab authoritarians promoting hostility among Arabs. Egyptian papers attack the Iraqi people, Saudi papers attack the Jordanian people. Kuwaiti papers attack the Palestinian people and vice versa. You said that the Iraqis betrayed you and Kuwait when they invaded your country...
From kindergarten to high school, I was spoon-fed the proper "Arab" account of the "Arab"-Israeli conflict by teachers--mostly Palestinian and Jordanian--whose lectures, I realize in retrospect, were nothing but biased diatribes lacking even a hint of objectivity. No one disapproved. It fit well into the Pan-Arab framework...
Assad's regime is also known to be the world's principal sponsor of terrorism. Attacks that have been linked to Syrian groups include the 1980 killing of the Jordanian prime minister, the 1982 assasination of President Gemayel of Lebanon, the 1983 attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1986 attempt to blow up an E1 A1 airliner in London and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...
Washington's public reaction to the King's outburst was mild at first. President Bush said the Jordanians had "made a mistake to align themselves so closely with Saddam," but added that he had tried to understand the pressures on King Hussein. By the next day it was clear that the President, who last Christmas sent King Hussein a card bearing the inscription "I'm still your friend!," had lost his patience. The Jordanians, Bush said, "seem to have moved over, way over into Saddam Hussein's camp." That, he said, "complicates" U.S.-Jordanian relations. The White House announced that...