“We have to protect our interests”
Is keeping oil flowing in the world markets in our interests?
When Saddam invaded Kuwait, we should have let them sort it out? Or let Saddam have Kuwait?
Is keeping oil flowing in the world markets in our interests? When Saddam invaded Kuwait, we should have let them sort it out? Or let Saddam have Kuwait?
Then we should have fought for Kuwait as a U.S. operation, not a UN one and should not have ended the war before Saddam was deposed and we would not be dealing with these things today.
If it is worth going to war over, then define the issue and declare war over it.
Saddam thought our own State Dept had given him the green light on Kuwait (which they admitted) just as the North Koreans thought that the U.S. had no concern about South Korea based on what the State Dept had said.
Foreign policy has consequences.
Is keeping oil flowing in the world markets in our interests? When Saddam invaded Kuwait, we should have let them sort it out? Or let Saddam have Kuwait?
Before it got to that, I would have let Saddam know that the U.S. would not allow any threat to its flow of oil.
The U.S. did not do that but gave Saddam the impression that he had a free hand in Kuwait.