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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Who did Robert Worth talk to in Kuwait? Sometimes I really want to meet the Arabs that New York Times correspondents talk to? So this is it? This is why Arabs are unhappy with their governments? It is not about corruption, nepotism, oppression, torture, subservience to US? So it is all about the slow pace of privatization? Really? "After the 2006 elections, many Kuwaitis were hoping for changes to cumbersome government rules that allow land to be allocated for business projects. Instead, the effort was blocked in Parliament. The slow pace of efforts to privatize the national airline and parts of the oil sector has also caused disappointment."