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The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War. We don’t think about it as much precisely because it wasn’t a boondoggle that lasted years and years.
by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War. We don’t think about it as much precisely because it wasn’t a boondoggle that lasted years and years.
- actionfromafar 9mo agoThe USA-led coalition finally managed to overcome ISIS insurrectionists and helped Iran install Iranian sponsored militias in the Iraqi parliament and government.
- lostlogin 9mo agoI think OP was referring to the first crack at Iraq by the first Bush.
- actionfromafar 9mo agoWell, in that case, I agree. It was efficient and not immoral either.
- lostlogin 9mo ago> The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War. That was a weird win with another invasion required for some reason and a toxic legacy of Gulf War Syndrome and no fly zones. Military the US crushed it but it didn’t seem to solve anything.
- jcranmer 9mo agoThe goal of the First Gulf War was, expressly, to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control and (to a much smaller degree) to remove Iraq as a possible regional hegemon for the next decade or so. Which it succeeded at. Once you've succeeded at your objectives, and the enemy has capitulated, what value is there to prosecuting the war further?
- lostlogin 9mo ago> what value is there to prosecuting the war further? That’s a question best handled by Bush Junior and the American people. What was the second war for?
- nutjob2 9mo agoThey won the war and lost the peace.
- nl 9mo agoSince the Vietnam war the US has successfully (defined by "achieved the stated goals") invaded a country as part of the following conflicts: Grenada (1983) Panama to arrest General Noriega (1989) Iraq in Gulf War 1 (1991) Haiti (1994) There have been other conflicts the US was involved with that they won too, but the others didn't involve invasions (eg NATO in Bosnia