Probably not. But he can buy time for us to build up. Critical time. Just saw we lost another F-15 and pilot in a training crash this evening. Clinton did a job on our military
If this turns into an Arab/America war, we need, to ensure the fewest American lives lost, to be at least where we were at the start of the Gulf War. From what I read, we have a ways to go.
Absolutely correct. Israel was a nice excuse, after the fact, but this conflict is a clash of civilizations. It is just the latest round of a conflict that's been going on for about 1,400 years.
We are not about to dump our Muslim allies. We are not going to fight one billion Muslims.
Are they really our allies, or do they use us like we use them? Also, we may have no choice about fighting the Arab world - Saddam wants it that way, and will likely lob some nasty stuff at Israel to cause a general war in the area. He undoubtedly would like the Syrians and Iranians fighting us in addition to his forces. However, I doubt that the Indonesians (200 million Moslems) or the 100 million Indian Moslems will be fighting us because of a dispute we might have with large parts of the Arab world.