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Baker warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that the cease-fire agreement in the Persian Gulf War imposed strict limits on his military operations. The implication was that the United States might resort to force to restrict his tactics in conflicts with rebels...
...little to say about Arab border disputes and was eager to improve relations with Iraq. That same day in Washington, anxious State Department officials urged the Pentagon to dispatch the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Independence and its battle group, then in the Indian Ocean, to the mouth of the Persian Gulf -- as a signal to Saddam that the U.S. would not sit idly by if Iraq crossed into Kuwait...
Five years later, in the fall of 1989, the U.S. began a sweeping reassessment of its policies in the Persian Gulf. According to an official with access to secret intelligence analyses, the CIA, a major contributor to the review, concluded that Iraq's war-weariness and heavy international debt of $65 billion made it likely that Baghdad would concentrate on rebuilding its crippled economy and increasing its oil production rather than embark on foreign adventures. Moreover, the assessment held, Iraq would feel beholden to those countries that had helped finance its fight against Iran, among them Kuwait and the United...
Whether U.S. forces alone could have liberated Kuwait is an academic question. The fact is that from the outset of the Persian Gulf military buildup intended to thwart Iraq, a multinational effort was politically necessary. Designed to demonstrate that the world community opposed Saddam Hussein, it was also meant to show that the Iraqi strongman was not the leader of an Arab-Muslim holy war against the infidel. That was the symbolism, a display of teamwork that skeptics thought would work only in an internationalist's fantasy. In practice, however, the alliance moved as a smoothly coordinated machine during...
...points, to 57.7. That's still way below last July's 101.7, but it's a start. It also fails to reflect consumer reaction to the cease-fire, which was announced after the survey was completed. Says economist Paul Erdman: "The American nation refound its confidence on the Persian Gulf battlefield. That confidence is seeping down into the national psyche and could help bring on an economic renewal. The war showed we don't have to play second fiddle to anybody, that we don't need the Germans and the Japanese to help us accomplish something...