blaming Clinton

[Terrance]

Richard Romeo wrote:
> 
> Terrance--
> 
> of course, I don't, dude--I'm talking about the difficulty US
> administrations have with supporting regimes that are quite autocratic like
> Egypt and Saudia Arabia and rationalizing such a relationship vis a vis
> avowed positions regarding freedom, democracy and the like.
> 
> It's not perceived favorably in many countries I would think. Kuwait never
> did loosen up after the Gulf War, did it?

What if the West allowed Iraq to take Kuwait? Build a Nuke army? 
Would the USA be the only superpower? 

Those were the stakes. Taking Kuwait would add between 10% and 12% of
the total to Iraq's oil control.  the influence Iraq had assumed by
massing an army on the boarder and tightening Kuwait was huge because
this move frightened the all the producers, an number of these oil
producers have small populations and little in the way of defense. 
And Iraq's people could do nothing about it. It didn't matter how many
young men died. 
Iraq knew that this was not the case in the USA.