Iraq | Ending Iraqi Atrocities in Kuwait Justifies Military Action
About the Author: Dan Quayle is the vice president
of the United States, and a former U.S. senator
from Indiana. The following viewpoint is a speech delivered
by Quayle to the Foreign Policy Research Institute
conference in Washington, D.C. on December 18,
1990.
The more we learn about Saddam Hussein's
barbarism in Kuwait, the clearer it becomes that
the crisis is not, as Neville Chamberlain once
said of Czechoslovakia, "A quarrel in a far-away
country between people of whom we know nothing."
Rather,...
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- Introduction
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Prelude to the Gulf War: Is Military Action Justified?
- Military Action Is Justified
- Defending America's Oil Supply Justifies Military Action
- Ending Iraqi Atrocities in Kuwait Justifies Military Action
- Destroying Iraq's Nuclear Capability Justifies Military Action
- The Failure of Economic Sanctions Justifies Military Action
- Military Action Is Moral
- Military Action Is Not Justified
- Military Action Is Immoral
- Defending America's Oil Supply Does Not Justify Military Action
- Liberating Kuwait Does Not Justify Military Action
- Destroying Iraq's Nuclear Capability Does Not Justify Military Action
- Maintaining Economic Sanctions May Prevent the Need for Military Action
- Did the Persian Gulf War Strengthen the U.S.?
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What Are the Military Lessons of the Persian Gulf War?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- The War Proves the Need for a Strong Military
- The War Proves the Importance of International Military Cooperation
- The War Proves the Need for United Nations' Involvement in World Conflicts
- The War Proves the Need for a U.S. Military Presence in the Gulf
- Does Not Prove the Need for a Strong Military
- The War Proves the Need to Seek Political Alternatives to Military Force
- The War Proves Military Force Cannot Solve International Problems
- The War Proves the Need to End Arms Sales to the Middle East
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