Sentences to ponder

by Tyler Cowen on June 4, 2009 at 2:48 pm in Current Affairs, Law | Permalink

Iraqis are actually demanding that Kuwait pay compensation for facilitating the 1991 U.S. "invasion" of Iraq…

In case you weren't sure, that's a story about right now, June 2009. Here is more.

7 comments

Sid June 4, 2009 at 4:20 pm: The statement is less outrageous, given the context provided by the prior sentence in the piece: “…Kuwait’s continuing — and frankly absurd — refusal to forgive Saddam-era debt, has driven relations to the boiling point.”
Jacob June 4, 2009 at 8:42 pm: That’s like a child asking for a lollipop after being spanked for stabbing another child with a stick.

Maybe that metaphors a bit of a stretch…. I liked bastiat’s comment though, LOL. Two thumbs up.
qgambit June 5, 2009 at 1:47 am: Sure – right after Iraqis compensate Kuwait for the 1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
jb June 5, 2009 at 8:15 am: Farmer,
The cross-drilling was a total pretext. Iraq had claimed Kuwait since independence, based on the borders of the Ottoman province of Basra, and had more or less seriously held out those claims since 1962. It was just waiting for an excuse and a regime willing to risk a war.
Steven June 5, 2009 at 4:37 pm: Why the quote marks ’round ‘invasion’? As near as I can tell, what the US did in 1991 in Iraq meets all the criteria of an invasion.
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