----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> b. Kuwait. Kuwait was merely an outpost of the west established early
in
> the 20th century for the specific purpose of maintaining hegemony over
> Iraq. Suppose France, England, & Spain had joined in making the area
> from New York to Baltimore an independent nation, totally suboridinate
> to those powers, in 1784. Surely the U.S. would have been justified in
> reoccupying that territory at the earliest moment in which it was
> militarily capable of doing so. Iraq was similarly justified in
> incorporating Kuwait, and the incorporation of Kuwait into Iraq must
be
> a part of any eventual general settlement in the mideast. (And of
> course, the government of Kuwait is equally brutal to Sadaam's regime,
> _and_ inferior in its general social and economic policies.)
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Kuwait has been a constitutional monarchy since 1756, older than the USA.
Ian