Benign in terms of the threat to the US at that time in 1991. Obviously after the original Desert Storm he was more of a threat. But he invaded Kuwait, and the Saudis at the time feared they would be next. And Kuwait was small potatoes, it was really Saudi Arabia we went to war far.
I think that is a pretty fair assessment, gator. There was also the principle of the thing, overrunning a “small country” to get out of paying a debt to it. In retrospect, I think letting an insane Hussein have his way with the Royals might have proved entertaining, if we weren’t dependent on the oil.
Meanwhile, here we are over 20 years later, we have the opportunity to undercut/eliminate that dependence by drilling, and instead we get years of hand-wringing indecision from this bunch we have.