The six foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council plus those of Egypt and Jordan and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a statement Tuesday saying they “welcomed” President Bush’s new Iraq strategy. They met in Kuwait to discuss preventing Iraq from becoming consumed in a full-blown sectarian civil war. Yet they did not commit to help stabilize or rebuild the country. Instead, their statement diplomatically called for disarming militias and ending sectarian violence. They said they “hope that the Iraqi government will actively engage all components of the Iraqi people in a real political process.”
The Space Force recently awarded SpaceX $739 million to launch nine missions for the Space Development Agency and National Reconnaissance Office over the next three years. Five of the awarded launches will be to build out SDA’s constellation of missile warning and tracking satellites in low-Earth orbit.
