geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) (11/29/90)
From: geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) [mod.note: I should not have posted this question in the first place, being non-technical as it is. Future followups to this thread will not be posted; alt.desert-shield is the correct newsgroup for this sort of topic. - Bill ] In article <1990Nov21.220402.19102@cbnews.att.com> ames!ames!claris!portal!cup.portal.com!Eric_S_Klien@uunet.UU.NET writes: >Finally, would it make a lot of sense to ignore the 650,000 Iraqi >troops in Kuwait and send everything against Baghdad figuring that >the troops in Kuwait would surrender if the Iraqi government was >overthrown? Well, I wouldn't "ignore" these troops, but it would be very helpful to isolate them, to break their communications, and to move so fast they had no idea where you were. Make it abundantly clear to the Iraqi troops that your main dispute is with their despotic leadership, and not with them. If you could present Iraqi troops with a well thought-out vision of a post-Saddam Iraq that is more appealing to them than tyranny and their memories of the past, would they dump Hussein? Is there an Arab voice of moderation, scholarship and compassion that can reach them? Since there are so many troops in Kuwait now, what do you think of this: lure them all into Kuwait, sack Hussein in Bagdad, away from his army, disarm the Iraqi troops in Kuwait and make them rebuild the country they just destroyed while you feed their families at home. In Arab literature, is there a legend that fits this model? Geoffrey S. Knauth geoff@bos.camex.com Camex, Inc., 75 Kneeland St. geoff%bos.camex@uunet.uu.net Boston, MA 02111, (617) 426-3577 x451 --standard disclaimers--