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Rita Hamad ’03, public relations officer for the Society of Arab Students, questioned the scope of the petition...
...There are currently 10,000 U.S. troops in the country likely to be the strongest Arab supporter of any attack on Iraq, and journalists report seeing scores of battle tanks there, too. Regardless of President Bush's final intent, war talk - and preparations - have begun to dominate the politics of the Gulf and the wider Arab world, deepening tensions between governments traditionally supportive of the U.S. and their increasingly anti-American citizenry. U.S. planners will certainly take Tuesday's incident as a warning of what may lie ahead if terrorist groups - whether or not they're operationally linked with...
...While these incidents may have no direct connection to U.S. preparations for war with Iraq, the prospect of an invasion is rallying anti-American sentiment on the Arab streets, where it is viewed as part of an anti-Arab, anti-Muslim crusade - and if that perception suits al-Qaeda's propagandists, the U.S. military buildup in the Gulf region may also suit its operational planners by offering more targets of opportunity and also by depleting U.S. deployments in Afghanistan...
...tension escalates. There's also the prospect of mass anti-American demonstrations that could threaten the stability of some of its key allies in the region, including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. President Bush has already been burned in effigy many times over this year in the streets of Arab capitals, although the trigger issue until now has been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Earlier this year, the wave of Arab anger sparked by Israel's reoccupation of West Bank cities even reached as far as normally tranquil Bahrain, which is also home to U.S. Naval operations in the Gulf. That...
Preemptive attack should be a last resort—the exception, not the rule, and used only when other countries cooperate. Rebuilding Iraq will be a massive, long and costly project, and many in the Arab world will see American imperialism, not Iraqi liberation. A U.N. mandate or a broad, international coalition would not only legitimize the undertaking, but make rebuilding Iraq less costly to the United States and calm Arab fears of American encroachment...