Volume 37, Number 14 · September 27, 1990
The Survivor
By Shaul Bakhash
Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East
by Patrick Seale
University of California Press, 552 pp., $14.95 (paper)
In the upheaval in Arab alliances brought about by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, none has been more striking than the decision of Syria's leader, Hafiz al-Asad, to throw in his lot with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the conservative Arab states. If the 'radical' Asad has ended up in the same camp as his old enemy, the United States, this is because he hates and fears Iraq's Saddam Hussein even more.
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