George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (New York: Alfred A. DeFrank, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War, and Peace, 1989–1992 (New York: G. Amatzia Baram and Barry Rubin (New York: St. Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000), pages 395–397 Īnd Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pages 167, 193–197.Īmatzia Baram, “The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Decision-Making in Baghdad,” in Iraq’s Road to War, ed. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Most strikingly, it reinforced America’s bent to act as a global stabilizer and set the stage ultimately for the imposition of a Western multiconfessional democracy by military occupation in a region fiercely resentful of a non-Muslim presence. The war confirmed America’s superpower status that its eclipse of the Soviet Union had earlier announced. If Hussein’s conquest stood, then it would have upset the Middle East’s political order. In brief, the United States fought to preserve the status quo in the Persian Gulf. As head of an international coalition, it also defended Saudi Arabia and the West’s access to the region’s oil.
America went to war against Iraq under the United Nations’ Charter to repel Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
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