I’ve had Kuwait’s back ever since I was 15 years old. Bad boy Saddam Hussein had just invaded Iraq’s tiny, oil-rich neighbor, and before too long the Gulf War was on. Promptly, my high school campus turned into an emirate lovefest: We scribbled “Free Kuwait!” (and, er, “Saddam Sucks!”) on our book covers and binders, and some enterprising students even printed buttons for our backpacks. Since expanding my horizons past the point of rudimentary 10th-grade knapsack foreign-policy advocacy, I’ve still always supported the decision to liberate Kuwait. Now if only Kuwait would liberate itself.

Read my column about last weekend’s disappointing parliamentary vote in the wee Gulf nation…

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