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...situation in the Gulf: 12 of the 23 members of that organization (representing a majority of the population of the Arab world) condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and demanded that Iraq withdraw immediately and unconditionally. In addition, the League called upon Iraq to pay reparations to the Kuwaiti people for its brutal and wanton destruction of that peaceful nation...
With unbelievable contempt for these facts Arab student organizations on campus arrogantly presume to be able to "educate" the Harvard community about the politics and culture of the Middle East. Unfortunately, this "education" boils down to a simplistic and anti-Kuwaiti program: "The main idea is to get the U.S. troops out of the Gulf" according to SAS president Samia Mora. Mora would do well to remember that this conflict is grounded not only in "cultural differences," but also in a phenomenon all too common among the peoples of the world: aggression...
...cannot be brushed aside. However, this view also rests on the legacy of colonialism. Under the Ottoman Turks, Kuwait was supposedly to be administered from the Iraqi city of Basra. In actuality, none of the Ottoman attempts to extend control over Kuwait suceeded. The de facto independence of the Kuwaiti people led by the Al-Sabah family could not be questioned. Thus, Saddam Hussein does not categorically oppose colonialism; rather, he utilizes that form of (Ottoman) imperialism which best serves his own meglomanical ends...
...Though the wealthy can afford the Kuwaiti delicacies on sale in the fancy food shops of Masbah and Al-Mansur, ordinary Iraqis are being squeezed by rationing and rising prices at government-owned stores. The cost of Marlboros has increased threefold since the invasion. "You can find everything at the private market, but who can pay?" says a man outside a grocery...
Without the luxury of a further provocation from Iraq -- an invasion of Saudi Arabia, the killing of Western hostages or some other horror -- it may fall to the Kuwaiti Emir to request that the United Nations act militarily. The collective-security provisions embodied in the U.N. Charter's Article 51 could provide the legal fig leaf for an internationally sanctioned war against Iraq while preserving at least some element of tactical surprise...