On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Mina Kumar wrote:
> from what I've read, in case of emergency, the House of Saud doesn't have
> enough trained personnel to operate the weaponry the US has sold them. and
> that's the reason US troops have stayed behind after the Gulf War.
But isn't such advanced weaponry useful mainly for warding off the threat of external military invasion? At the moment that threat seems to me to be non-existent.
Michael
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