Interesting News from Kuwait

"Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah named a new cabinet on Tuesday with 10 new faces, including the oil and defence ministers, and no women, despite objections from the opposition.

Hani Hussein, a former chief executive officer of the national oil conglomerate Kuwait Petroleum Corp, was appointed oil minister, replacing Mohammad al-Baseeri."

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"The new cabinet does not include a single Islamist, the largest opposition bloc that scored an impressive victory in the February 2 general elections when they won 23 seats in the 50-member parliament."

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"The snap elections were held after youth-led street protests forced former prime minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to step down in late November"

. Interesting about the youth rebellion getting results, too, but there's a downside. For the first time since 2006 there are no women in the cabinet.

I remember during the Iraq war, Kuwait made several reforms amounting to greater democratization of their political system. Seems they are in full retreat from that. I miss Dubya.