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...judge by what's selling in Christian bookstores these days, the war in the Persian Gulf is not about anything so mundane as liberating Kuwait or neutralizing the Butcher of Baghdad. Rather, the "mother of battles" (as Saddam Hussein likes to call it) is about the fulfillment of biblical prophecies regarding the imminence of Armageddon...
...partners are trying to limit casualties in their ranks and among civilians in Iraq, while Saddam boasts of his willingness to lose tens of thousands of his own troops in a single engagement, and deliberately targets cities. The moral equivalent of his dumping oil into the Persian Gulf would be poisoning the Tigris and Euphrates or tampering with the dams at their headwaters. Yet both measures are out of the question. By the same token, if Saddam had nuclear weapons, he might very well use them; the U.S. does have nukes, but it will never use them...
...ongoing saga in the Persian Gulf has further widened the gap between American and Israeli strategic goals. U.S. leaders can no longer view pro-Western Arab leaders as dispensable allies. Not when they form a key component of the international coalition that will shape George Bush's New World Order. Not when the free flow of Arab oil has moved to the forefront of American concerns...
Giroux said that school officials, anticipating misunderstandings that might arise among students in response to Operation Desert Storm, prepared and distributed packets of information about the Persian Gulf situation that "stressed multi-cultural understanding of the people from that area." The packets contained workshops entitled "If You Were a Saudi Kid" and "The Islamic Religion...
...Syrian and Iraqi forces exchanged fire near the Saudi border, in the first reported combat by Syria in the Persian Gulf...