Quotes of the year: Biden & Pollack 18, March 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in American ME Relations, Foreign Policies, Kuwait.Tags: Biden and Israel, Biden quotes, David Pollock, Jo Biden, Kuwait, Settlement construction, US Military in Kuwait, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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Today I heard two fantastic quotes.
Vice President Biden, on returning to the US remarked:
…it’s great to be back to a place where a boom in housing construction is actually a good thing.
Without wishing to engage in too much hyperbole, I think that the statistic that David Pollock briefly mentioned in a recent Washington Institute for Near East Policy podcast is simply amazing. Unbelievable at first, after a minute’s searching I corroborated the statistic. It comes from US Department of State website, no less.
…for most of this decade 60% of the territory of Kuwait was devoted to the United States military.
The Gulf blog 
Very interesting. If only there was some de facto sovereignty transfer after a 51% use of a country’s area…