ABSTRACT
The Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah expressed this optimistic, and arguably realistic, statement on the occasion of Reagan’s landslide victory over President Carter in the 1980 presidential election. Yet at the time, he was neither confident nor able to predict with certainty the ways in which US-Kuwaiti relations would develop. On the contrary, the Kuwaiti News Agency displayed a rather negative outlook on the relationship by asserting that President-elect Reagan would attach much significance in his support for Israel.2 From its view, the bilateral relationship was going to be generally gloomy. But a positive development, in fact, took place in the region.
