While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.