Word: libya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lines of activity in the Middle East moving parallel to each other, each contradicting the purpose of the other. On the one hand, the peace negotiations; on the other, the acceleration of the arms race. Countries that are not part of the peace process -- Iran, Iraq and Libya -- are participants in the arms race. Therefore we have to take care of our defense capability to ensure that we will exist, to give enough security to our citizens and our vital interests, and to convince Arab leaders that they will achieve nothing through the use of force...
Arab states ranging from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Libya quickly pledged up to $180 million in aid, and Japan promised to donate $600,000. Although most of Cairo's more modern buildings came through the quake relatively unharmed, there were scenes of terrible devastation, particularly in the older neighborhoods. But Egypt's ancient monuments, including the Sphinx and the Pyramids, survived unscathed...
...Libya, the administration has blustered angrily in public about maintaining strict sanctions while secretly granting special favors to U.S. oil companies doing business there. Some of the executives of these same companies donated money to Bush's 1988 campaign coffers...
Today only six states in the world are overtly hostile to the U.S.: Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea and Syria. Of these, Iraq boasted by far the largest armed forces at the time of the Kuwait invasion. Driving the Iraqis out of Kuwait required 427,000 U.S. fighters, or 22% of the Pentagon's uniformed personnel at that time. None of the five other hostile states comes close to matching Iraq's pre-1991 strength on the ground or in the air. Moreover, the U.S. would almost certainly have allies in future combat against any would-be aggressor: South...
...Israel-Iraq Libya-Cuba America...