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Originally posted by Cowperson@Oct 6 2004, 03:39 PM
That's overstating things isn't it?
America left Saudi Arabia. Are Egypt, Jordan and Iran seriously worried about a USA ground invasion? Nope.
Syria might be but not likely. Do states like Kuwait, Qatar, etc, fear a USA invasion? Nope.
If the leadership of those countries are worried about something its the threat of incitement to their own populations from American actions, causing them to drift toward a greater police state to keep things under control.
American politicians on both sides seem to feel successful democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq will eventually "grip the region in fear."
Cowperson
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you're lopping two groups of arab countries together.
the major divide in fact.
saudi arabia and kuwait represent america's pals. they hated and feared iraq because they thoroughly betrayed it in the late eighties, and ran behind their friendly uncle sam when trouble brewed.
witness kuwait, despite its small size it is very high on the list of proven reserves in the world - yet it didn't have any trouble with the moral dillemna of directional drilling under iraq. after all, what could iraq do?
in syria and iran, the fear is very real, because these countries have probably supported terror 100x or more than iraq did.
as if preventing terror were the real reason for the invasion!