Is Kuwait still an issue in American foreign policy/the American psyche?
Kuwait, Qattar and Saudi Arabia. The UAE is only about business, as is Yemen and others. Kuwait allws us to help our troops in Iraq from there – we have troops in Iraq – have a landing base there – our troops get some town time there. It’s very important – plus we get our share of oil from there. http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2007/0406/mcca/mccaffery_report.html The support of Kuwait has been absolutely vital to our war on terror. The presence of 22,000 US Army Forces, 6000 US contractors, and 1800 Air Force personnel is crucial to the continuation of military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Gulf. Kuwait is the lynchpin of the entire logistics effort. We send a thousand trucks a day up into Iraq from Kuwait. It is impressive how effectively we have lowered our signature and footprint in Kuwait. We have come down from twenty-three bases –to four. Camp Arifjan has b
