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Article: No turning back: despite this week's bomb in Saudi Arabia, and apparent setbacks in Israel, America must continue its efforts in the Middle East.(Editorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 29, 1996
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AMERICA'S hand in the Middle East has, more often than not, been helpful to those who live there. People speak, or at least spoke, of a pax Americana: the United States threw Iraq out of Kuwait; stayed on to protect the Gulf states from Iraqi and Iranian troublemaking; guided Israel and the Arab states into, or towards, peace. But now, in Saudi Arabia, the kindly hand has been savagely bitten.
The huge bomb that on June 25th blew up part of the King Abdul Aziz air base in Dhahran on the east coast of Saudi Arabia was aimed at Americans and hit its target squarely: 19 American servicemen were killed and over 300 people (mainly Saudis, Bangladeshis and Americans) ...