[bonesmccoy]

It's an interesting op/ed piece by a Kuwaiti student at USC. He's written a cogent set of opinions and his interpretation is based upon his experience and emotions.

I feel for him, but his selection of words is not an accurate representation of the White House strategy... and he neglects to understand the fact that without the Bush defense of Kuwait, he would have no nation to be from.

[gipper81]

I agree. Even though our military spending on a %GDP basis is nowhere near what it was in the 1980s, it still was enough to save Kuwait.

[zarf]

Strange how nuanced and demanding of democratic perfection this Arab can be.

The US has never claimed to be a perfect democracy. In fact, we proudly wave our banner of imperfection, our flaws - to the world.

It's amazing that societies that rip the tongues out their citizens throats-or treat women like cattle- can demand perfection of us before they are willing to act.

Perhaps at least the debate itself is a positive sign of something positive germinating.