When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and its Western allies, as well as the United Nations Security Council, demanded that Saddam Hussein withdraw from Kuwait. If he did not pull back from Kuwait, Iraq would be subject to economic sanctions and perhaps punitive war by a grand coalition of Western and Middle Eastern allies. At a critical point in the crisis, Margaret Thatcher famously told President George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly on this. The United States, she said, must
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and its Western allies, as well as the United Nations Security Council, demanded that Saddam Hussein withdraw from Kuwait. If he did not pull back from Kuwait, Iraq would be subject to economic sanctions and perhaps punitive war by a grand coalition of Western and Middle Eastern allies. At a critical point in the crisis, Margaret Thatcher famously told President George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly on this. The United States, she said, must…
