Author Daniel Pipes wrote this article for the Jewish Exponent soon after the end of Operation Desert Storm in 1992. So what changed after four months of war in the Middle East? Not much according to Pipes: "much remains surprisingly as it was." His article explains that even though the war produced never before seen events such as the U.S. and Russia being on the same side for the first time in nearly fifty years, there were almost no political and economical developments in the middle east. It mentions that "Saddam Husayn [remained] in power, barbaric, truculent, and deceitful as ever" and the Syrian Government continued to rule Lebanon, dominate Palestine, and traffic drugs. So why did almost nothing change? Pipes goes on to explain how the fall of the soviet Union is partially responsible.
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