In fact ragheads killing each other seems like a marvelous thing to me. Kinda like watching the Nazis and Russian Commies fight...you hope they both lose.
"In fact ragheads killing each other seems like a marvelous thing to me."
You're forgetting our interests in the area.
We didn't need Iraq invading Kuwait let alone Saudi Arabia.
That would have given Saddam a larger control of oil production, and certainly he would not have been friendly with us about it.
As it sat, he was friendlier with 'soviet bloc' nations.
In essence, giving Saddam control over a massive amount of oil would have been the same as giving the Russians a controlling share of oil production.
At the time, we didn't need that.
Remember, Russia didn't collapse into the CIS until after Desert Storm.