Fear of war turns a desert nation toward the U.S.
During the broiling, dusty afternoons of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, sleep is the preferred activity for most citizens of Kuwait. Lately, that slumber has proved fitful for the oil-rich, stubbornly independent nation and its capital city of glinting office buildings and flashy houses striving for modernity. Increasingly, Kuwait has been drawn into the four-year-old war between neighboring Iraq and nearby Iran.
In the past six weeks, three of Kuwait's oil tankers have been attacked in the Persian Gulf as Iran,...
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