Another analysis of troop strength and tactics, from a Daily Dish reader. As Sullivan says, "I have a feeling this debate is going to go on for quite some time."
Kuwait isn't happy about Arab support for Saddam, as evidenced by what they see of the war on Arab satellite TV.
"Some Arab channels are not showing the good, they do not show when the Americans bring help to the Iraqi people. They show just one side," says Balqis Aziz, who joined up to 2,000 other Kuwaitis at an open air meeting to reaffirm their support for the efforts to unseat Saddam Hussein. . . . Criticism from fellow Arabs is particularly hard to swallow, say some Kuwaitis, because of the aid this oil-rich emirate has given to its regional neighbours and its short, but bloody, experience of rule by Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War.Did you know that El Paso TX is the home of the German Air Force Command? Thirty-one allied nations train at Fort Bliss, but only Germany keeps permanent military installations there.
Until the Iraq war, the US and German forces and their families got along well, and German residents assimilated enthusiastically into Texas culture. But . . .
privately some military personnel at Fort Bliss grumble about the irony of welcoming German troops only to watch them lay their arms down when America went to war.
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