Former Kuwaiti ambassador says it would be 'catastrophic' for Mideast if Kerry wins (AP) 8 July 2004
KUWAIT CITY - It would be "catastrophic" for the Middle East if Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was elected to the White House, a former Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington said in comments published yesterday.
Shaikh Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who was Kuwait's ambassador to the United States when Republican president George Bush formed a US-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War, said a Republican government would do a better job in solving the region's problems. "If the American administration changes in November, it will be catastrophic ... because those Democrats do not understand a thing about foreign policy, and they lack the determination to make decisions the way (President George W.) Bush made them in Iraq and elsewhere," Shaikh Saud told Al Siyassah daily in an interview conducted recently in Kuwait.
Shaikh Saud told the daily that he feared a Democratic government would "fumble" when making decisions about the Middle East. (snipped)
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Hey...I agree with the guy. If the John-John team gets in then we might as well bend over and kiss....