My First Police State

In 1991, Saddam Hussein, master of self-made disaster, attacked Kuwait and Saudi Arabia panicked. The Kingdom's monarchy cried uncle, begging America to come and save it from a threat that probably didn't exist, ignoring the billions of dollars it had spent on an army. Not surprisingly, that didn't go over too well with many locals, including a veteran of the Afghan resistance, Osama Bin Laden. When a large, wealthy country accepts a sizable foreign force in the face of an unlikely danger, it just about admits its impotence. That is, uselessness. This is my perspective on three weeks in a country I couldn't stand after an hour, a land suffocating under the throne of an irrelevant regime - and because it is told by a concerned Muslim, it hits harder than anything Fox News could dish out. Indeed. They don't even know how to speak Arabic.Moghul, Haroon is the author of 'My First Police State' with ISBN 9781413425383 and ISBN 1413425380.