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...Future of Kuwaiti Science and Technology"--Room 4, Coolidge Hall...
...equipped and -trained of his soldiers. If the allies broke through fixed Iraqi defenses and the armored divisions backing them up, the Guard would pounce and drive the intruders back. When the allied invasion came, the Iraqi plan fell apart. Coalition forces broke through in several places along the Kuwaiti border and swept into Iraq far to the west. Without air reconnaissance, neither Baghdad nor the Guard's division commanders knew where the main thrust was nor where they should direct a counterattack. They were unable to communicate with one another, and continuous air attacks kept them from moving...
...channeled into killing zones targeted by Iraqi artillery, which was the strongest weapon Iraq had used against Iran. This time the static defense did not hold. Preoccupied with hanging on to newly conquered Kuwait, Saddam did not extend his fortifications more than a few miles beyond the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. Coalition forces easily outflanked the "Saddam line." Even along the gulf coast, where U.S. and Saudi troops did attack straight north into Kuwait, Iraq's war-weary, underfed frontline army lacked the will to man the barricades. The allies quickly slashed through...
...allure of immoral solutions to the grave problems of the Middle East. If the human and cultural dignity of an Arab is conditional upon her/his acceptance of cultural and/or political nationalism, all manner of atrocities become permissible against dissenters. Thus, Baghdad could justify its crimes against the Kuwaiti people by branding them and their Arab coalition allies as "traitors against the Arab Nation...
...bolster the legitimacy of U.S. involvement, Bush assembled an unprecedented international coalition against Saddam with the blessing of the U.N. He also convinced a large majority of the American people that the "liberation of Kuwait" was a moral imperative (even though Kuwaiti "liberty" was a non-issue and U.S. morality was a secondary...