Opinion of the Gulf War

[darklordoftech]

We all agree that the sequel was horrible, but what about the first episode?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Turning point where Americans had to fight in the Arab Region and wars became Quagmires and wars of containment. Thinking about going to military up until 2001

[Blair]

Freedom war, and should have done something to stop Saddam from being able to kill 100,000+ Kurds later.

[ABTars2000]

Freedom War. We defended Kuwait's sovereignty with minimal causalities. 

[America Needs R'hllor]

Freedom war, and should have done something to stop Saddam from being able to kill 100,000+ Kurds later.

[Cashew]

Horrible war fought to defend a reactionary gulf monarchy.

[Old Man Willow]

Horrible war (isolationist).

[Sumner 1868]

Oil war.

[thumb21]

The war was justified on its own merits but there is a large level of hypocrisy involved. Many other countries have been invaded before and after the Gulf War but all of a sudden we care so much about the integrity of international borders when an oil rich state is invaded?

Basically, I think the war was justified but it wasn't a benevolent war based on the principle that you can't just invade other countries.

How the aftermath of the war was handled was also dreadful. False hope was given to anti-government rebels who proceeded to get slaughtered viscously. Not to mention the ridiculously high number of deaths (100s of thousands) caused by the sanctions.

Overall, horrible war.