Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AMERICAN troops have been in Saudi Arabia for three months and they won't be coming home soon. As our military and economic commitments grow, we should be careful that our presence does not become a burden-some, long-term intrusion like our presence in other countries. In other words, we should not get too comfortable in the desert...
...Saudi Arabia and the current Gulf crisis in general, these differences are magnified by the large cultural gaps that exist between our two regions. Our policy in the Gulf must be especially sensitive to these differences--differences that are at the root of the political turmoil...
...HAVE already begun our cultural invasion of the desert. Last week, the soldiers were treated to their first day of Armed Forces Network (AFN) radio. An announcer shouted "Good Morning, Saudi Arabia!" and woke up soldiers with rock music like Adrian Kroenaur did in Vietnam. Now our military men do not have to sing to themselves or listen to Saudi music...
...that won't melt in the desert) for a while until the crisis cools down. If the situation escalates into war, the soldiers will be there to fight. But after normalcy is returned to the region, it will not be fair to turn the Saudi Arabian desert into a criss-crossed network of AFN television lines and American schools...
...point of our presence in countries like Belgium or France--or even Saudi Arabia--is not to buy a few souveniers, take photos of the natives and then leave. The point is to protect or secure or whatever else we may have to do while keeping in line with the government and practices of the host country...