Kuwait is as good an ally as the United States has in the Arab world. They do kind of owe us, after all, for being the vast majority of the coalition that drove the Iraqi army out of their country in 1991. I was there, and spent a few days in Kuwait City while some of the smoke was still rising. After a day walking around the city, my hand was nearing worn out from all the handshakes from grateful Kuwaitis, and I remember one little old Kuwaiti lady going around fervently telling every U.S. soldier she saw, “When you see George Bush, you tell him thank you!”
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My reply to her was “Ma’am, when I see him, I will.”
Well, now that ally has suffered an attack on their primary international airport, and they are not suffering in silence over it.
Kuwait decried Iranian attacks in a statement issued by its foreign affairs ministry, saying that the Kuwait International Airport had been targeted.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the State of Kuwait’s condemnation and denunciation, in the strongest terms, of the brutal and ongoing Iranian attacks using ballistic missiles and drones, the latest of which occurred at dawn today, targeting once again civilian and vital facilities, including Kuwait International Airport, resulting in the death of one individual, injuries to others, and damage to vital facilities, including diplomatic missions,” part of the statement declared, according to a translation of the Arabic-language post on X.
Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense spokesperson had indicated that a building at Kuwait International Airport was damaged and people were injured, according to a post on X by the official account of Kuwait Army general staff headquarters.
Other than Kuwait being a U.S. ally, it’s hard to see Iran’s reasoning behind this strike.
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But then, Kuwait being a U.S. ally may be reason enough, even with negotiations with the Trump administration still presumably underway.
Dictators and despots, when they see their grasp on power and, often, their lives slipping away, aren’t exactly known for acting rationally; look at German military decision-making in the last year of World War 2, for example. And to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill from that conflict, Iran has been asking for it; the question is, now will they get it?
It’s becoming rather hard to say. What was, in the beginning, an a**-kicking has now devolved into a series of pinpricks, on both sides. That’s because Iran no longer has the capacity to do anything more; as for the United States, we’ve hit a few more key Iranian military installations, but we haven’t yet seen the knockout blow we’ve all been waiting for.
Iran, one might think, could be playing for time. But then they do and do something like hitting Kuwait, a nation that isn’t directly involved. Irrational, yes. A sign that the regime is cracking up? Maybe. The beginning of the end? Again, to paraphrase Sir Winston, maybe not, but it may be the end of the beginning. Perhaps.
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We were hoping, at the outset, that the overwhelming preponderance of American military might would put a quick end to this thing. Now, we’re still waiting, and our few allies in the region are getting knocked around.
Editor’s Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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