Word: kuwait
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...absence of clearly defined policy goals, even the successful projection of American military power can come to an indecisive conclusion. Two years after the American invasion of Panama, that nation is once again a corrupt parody of democracy. One year after the liberation of Kuwait, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remains in power, still repressing his own people and threatening the hapless Kurds, while the autocratic Kuwaitis pursue their own abuses against Palestinians in their country...
...were less insulated by his tiny team from the Foreign Service and outside experts. He consistently underestimated the power of nationalism in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Preoccupied with Gorbachev and German unification, he did not smell the trouble brewing in Baghdad as Saddam Hussein moved closer to invading Kuwait...
...disturbing double standard exists in the Bush administration's decision to send troops into Kuwait last year and its present position toward the fleeing Haitians. Iraq's aggression merited definitive condemnation by the U.S. government. The brutal conduct of the Haitian dictatorship against its own people deserves similar censure...
Clearly, the U.S. government concealed her name because reporters would have challenged the legitimacy of her allegations if they had known that she was a direct relative of a high-ranking Kuwaiti official and a member of the Al-Sabah ruling family of Kuwait...
...truly concern itself with the preservation of democracy and opposition to oppression, then decisive action to help the Haitians would achieve these ends more effectively than the restoration of rule to the Al-Sabahs in Kuwait. Unlike Emir Al-Sabah, Aristide was a democratically elected leader, the first ever in Haiti...