The Iraqi leader’s one hope of forcing his Arab brethren back to his side is their mutual hatred for Israel. And the fact that Arab leaders, who are fiercely divided on so many subjects, would unite against him certifies the reality of the problem Hussein has brought to their world-and ours. Those who remember Hitler’s monstrous lies, blitzkrieg attacks, rumbling tanks, gas bottles, columns of dead bodies, and pious pronouncements of being a savior of his people discern the macabre parallels. The fear of confronting a modern Hitler has been raised repeatedly in the world press, and rightly so. Arab leaders responded to the who’s next? peril by throwing caution to the wind and aligning with the United States, the one major power willing to act immediately to circumvent Hussein’s gobbling them up, destabilizing the region, and plunging the world into economic chaos. Erasing the border between Iraq and Kuwait was a first step in eliminating the problem. Borders of Arab nations, he stated, were artificially drawn by “colonial imperialists.” Their purpose, he continued, was to divide permanently and weaken Arab national solidarity. Hussein’s explanation for his adventure in Kuwait, however, projects ambitions far beyond oil rigs and stolen assets. Analysts interpreted the intrusion correctly as a barefaced attempt to increase his oil assets in order to shore up his sagging financial fortunes. When Saddam Hussein violated the borders of another Arab nation, he set an ominous precedent and caused alarms to go off in practically every Arab capital in the region.
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