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...held on to the West Bank at least partly because of a belief that it needed the territory for defense against neighboring states that have never recognized its right to exist and often threatened to destroy "the Zionist entity." No one, not even Ayatullah Khomeini, has ever proposed to wipe Iraq off the map. Nor can Iraq conceivably claim that it needs Kuwaiti ( territory for defense. It fought off Iranian assaults quite effectively throughout eight years of war without making any use of Kuwaiti soil...
...tale seems eerily parallel to Rushdie's predicament. There is a storyteller named Rashid Khalifa, also known as the Shah of Blah, who loses the gift of the gab and can no longer entertain. What's worse, his condition is mysteriously linked to a fanatic cult that wants to wipe out not only made-up tales but also human speech. Children may take all this as make- believe, but adult readers are free to perceive some veiled autobiography, plus a wistful prophecy: in the end, the good guys live happily ever after...
Iraq would pay a fearful price. "The Israelis would wipe out Baghdad," says an American analyst -- assuming the U.S. did not beat them to it. But Israeli involvement would cause an enormous upheaval in the Arab world. "No American would be safe anywhere in the region," says one U.S. official. Saddam would also be betting that America's Arab allies, such as Egypt and Syria, would either switch sides or face popular outrage strong enough to overthrow their governments...
Bowsher, citing a General Accounting Office report, said the failure of a single major bank or the onset of a recession could wipe out the FDIC's insurance fund, which has only $12 billion or so on hand to cover the $2 trillion in insured deposits in commercial banks. And if the fund was exhausted, the government might have to provide a bailout with taxpayer money. Just a day after Bowsher's testimony, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that even without a recession, some 630 banks will fail over the next three years and drain the FDIC of more than...
Saddam's wisespread appeal to the Arab masses isn't limited to his his threat to wipe out Israel with poison gas; he is enormously popular for his thuggery against the rich and selfish Arab patricians of Kuwait...