SAND IN OUR FACE.

Authors :: Kondracke, Morton
Source :: New Republic. 1/28/91, Vol. 204 Issue 4, p11-13. 3p.
Publication Year :: 1991
Abstract: Explains that social conditions in Saudi Arabia may push United States President George Bush to go to war against Iraq and tyrant Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf. Islamic militants have been on a tear against secularism, modernism, and immorality; Accusation against the US of plotting to occupy Saudi Arabia permanently; Clerics are implicitly questioning the legitimacy of the Saudi royal family; Split in Saudi society is important for US strategy against Hussein.