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...speech to the Discovery Institute in Seattle: “[T]he question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is, not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq...
...internal debate within the Army about whether to take the troops out of the FOBS and station them closer to the action in the urban neighborhoods of Baghdad. "If the strategy is to hunker down," Webb said. "We might as well have them hunkered down in safer places like Kuwait and Jordan, while keeping our special-ops forces and air support active in Iraq...
...Some of the changes in the Middle East are happening gradually, but they are real. Algeria has held its first competitive presidential election, and the military remained neutral. The United Arab Emirates recently announced that half of the seats in its Federal National Council will be chosen by elections. Kuwait held elections in which women were allowed to vote and run for office for the first time. Citizens have voted in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, in parliamentary elections in Jordan and Bahrain, and in multiparty presidential elections in Yemen and Egypt. These are important steps, and the governments should...
...unnerving the region's Sunni Arab states, which have watched helplessly as Iran's Shi'ite rulers have accelerated their nuclear program and carved out areas of influence in Lebanon and Iraq. Not surprisingly, the Arabs are eager to be in the Lebanon game: between them, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have pledged an $800 million aid package to the Lebanese government for rebuilding projects while handing an additional $1.5 billion in soft loans to the Bank of Lebanon to shore up the nation's currency. Saudi officials believe that the kingdom's support will far surpass the amount Iran provides...
...family when the war broke out. She and her four children, ages 13 to 22, walked for four hours on the main roads, white flags held aloft, to get to the hospital in Tibnine. She is reluctant to tell more of her story because her husband, who is in Kuwait, thinks the family is in Beirut and she doesn't want to worry him. She began to cry, however, as she begged for transportation north. "We just want a car to get out of here to Beirut," she said...