The Blunderer From Baghdad
The next day Iraq invaded Kuwait and Saddam’s world began to crumble. Now for more than a month the United States and its allied air forces have slashed his nation with laser-guided weapons and bludgeoned it with B-52s. Israel, powerful as it is, could never have waged such a war. The gulf states, sweating in Saddam’s shadow, would never have dared. The Americans and Europeans, however suspiciously they eyed him, could hardly have found a better reason than Kuwait to unite against him....