I do enjoy the memory of Reagan and Thatcher together. Naively I thought that the world had corrected course and that we were being sane in our fiscal, social, foreign policies from then on.
But no, our nation saw fit to elect the likes of Clinton and Obama, twice each! afterwards and we are morally quite degraded. I was wrong. My estimation of the majority of humanity and Americans is much lower now. Clinton and Obama should not even have been candidates let alone winners in a good society.
Saddam was reviled by Sunni Islamic terrorists as he was killing them; Saddam was blackmailing the Saudis and Qataris - and that money was later used to fund madrassas spreading Wahabbi ideology to Al Qaeda, Islamic state, Al Shabab, Boko Haram, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Abu Sayyaf etc.; Saddm was going to use the Saudi-Kuwaiti money to fight against the Ayatollahs once more.
Think of it -- if no Gulf War then no Islamic state, no Al Qaeda, no 9/11, no US intervention in Iraq, probably no Taliban and a very diminished Ayatollah Iran.