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...practical matter, the U.S. wants and needs allies. U.N. approval confers legitimacy that even a superpower can't claim by itself, and such approval is essential in the Middle East. Nations such as Saudi Arabia might not agree to serve as staging bases without U.N. backing, and Bush can't place all the troops he'll need for the war on aircraft carriers. Other friendly Arab nations like Jordan, Egypt and Qatar need U.N. cover to deflect accusations that they are party to an attack on a brother Arab country. With U.N. sanction, it will be easier to convince ordinary...
...fight against Islamic radicalism, Americans must dance with dictators, or we will die. But where did most of the Sept. 11 hijackers come from? Not from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran or Libya, and not from any Arab nation led by a hostile regime. They came largely from Saudi Arabia, a country led by friendly dictators that Krauthammer categorizes as our "sons of bitches." Supporting such regimes in the name of freedom not only is pathetically ironic but also backfires on a regular basis. Our strongest and most reliable allies throughout the cold war were the governments and people of true...
...that their skepticism is insincere, but simply because their primary concern is stability and as U.S. allies they'd have an overriding interest in seeing the war won quickly and decisively. Further, many of the key foreign players in this conflict, from France and Russia to Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have a strong commercial and political interest in influencing the shape of a post-Saddam order in Iraq...
...Falaika attack may have been the first staged in Kuwait, but it was not the first time U.S. forces have been targeted in the Gulf since the end of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. In November 1995, confessed Bin Laden supporters from Saudi Arabia set off a car bomb at a joint Saudi-American training facility in Riyadh, killing four U.S. servicemen. In June 1996, attackers with alleged links to Iran detonated a massive truck bomb outside a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Khobar, eastern Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans. A few months later, the Saudi-born Bin Laden...
...tanks, armored personnel carriers, ammo and other equipment. The United Arab Emirates and Oman have routinely allowed U.S. planes to come and go and may see a buildup of U.S. forces in the event of a war, while one of the biggest U.S. contingents in the Gulf is at Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Airforce Base (P-SAB) near Riyadh. The Saudis have spoken out strongly against a war, but have indicated that they will allow the use of P-SAB if the United Nations authorizes military force against Saddam's regime. But because of Saudi sensitivities and because...