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In response to "Nobody with the Gulf War on their resume succeeded in foreign policy." by David

He put together an Arab coalition to attack an Arab nation without anyone taking shots as Israel.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Jul 28 '16, 08:18

And they achieved their main goal of freeing the invaded nation within 6 weeks (of which only 4 days were ground invasion) at the cost of less than 100 American lives.

Given the parameters of the mission, that was nearly a flawless victory.

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Agreed. And at the time I thought it was wrong we didn't eliminate Saddam - amoxy Jul 28, 08:40
This thread stuns me. -- nm - David Jul 28, 08:34
This. Gulf War 1 was necessary and executed with very little mission creep. As wars go, it went about as well as one can. -- nm - TWuG Jul 28, 08:27 7
- I tend to agree, but think that it's possible that more could have been done with that victory that might have led to Iraq war II being avoided. -- (edited) - pmb Jul 28, 08:33 6
  - I think if we hadn't stepped away when we did, we lose the coalition and it's now fermenting hate amongst the rest of the Arab World. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 08:35 5
    - I agree, but we might have been able to leave ourselves with stronger inspection rights and greater intelligence assets there. -- nm - pmb Jul 28, 08:58
    - I agree. Going into Baghdad would have presented us with what we have now but earlier. - Mel Profit Jul 28, 08:51 3
      - but in a pre 9/11, pre Al Qaeda world -- nm - gerald Jul 28, 08:56 2
        
        But we would have created a vacuum still, be it Hezbollah, the beginnings of AQ or whatnot. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 09:08
        
        for all we know that would have created AQ... - Mel Profit Jul 28, 08:58

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