Welcome for U.S. in Gulf No Longer Quite So Hearty (washingtonpost.com) Many Kuwaitis say that while they remain grateful to the United States, they are outraged by what they perceive as growing U.S. bias toward Israel and against the Palestinians.

It would be so much easier to take statement like this seriously if Kuwait had not undergone an ethnic cleansing of sorts, with the expulsion of nearly every Palestinian from the country in punishment for Arafat's support of Saddam last time around.