CLOVIS MAKSOUD
when Saddam Hussein led Iraq in an Invasion of Kuwait in 1990 the Arab League was split. While most Arab countries condemned the invasion, they split on whether or not to cooperate with United States leadership in a broad coalition of nations including Saudi Arabia and some other Arab nations. Having the United States, British, French and other Western troops as the strongest military force on Arab lands was anathema to some nations. Maksoud, a veteran Arab Diplomat and Representative for most of his professional life, could not rationalize the different Arab points of view.
The Arab forces were badly beaten by the Israelis in the 1973 war. In one of the great examples of attempted spin control:
Clovis Maksoud was an American diplomat and journalist. He served as Ambassador of the Arab League to India from 1961 through 1966, to the United Nations from 1979 through 1990 and at the same time to the United States. He worked with presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
