During the gulf it was protecting the people of Kuwait. With both of these conflicts the United States intervened on the premise of world safety. What followed was the longest war in which America had ever been engaged before the modern war in the Middle East, one which resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of young American troops. About thirty years earlier, the United States invaded the small and unfamiliar country of Vietnam to help stop the invasion of supposed Communists from Northern Vietnam.
coalition forces, went into Kuwait to halt the progressing Iraqi invasion. Except that, with this invasion, there was no previous threat to American safety. The same thing happened almost eleven years earlier at the onset of the Persian Gulf War, more popularly know in America as Operation Desert Storm. However, after several years of fighting, and a mobilization into Afghanistan, many people began to lose interest in the war, and then eventually started to resent it.
They wanted justice to be brought to those who caused the deaths of over three thousand American citizens. Bush’s side when he made the decision to invade Iraq after the attacks on 9/11. The fact that the United States will provide troops or weapons to almost any conflict that suits its interests draws an uproar of opposition, not just from other countries, but from factions within the U.S. Many people have a problem with this aspect of American politics. has appeared to shed blood in more places than not.
From the World Wars to Korea, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, the U.S. In its earliest years it even played host to wars fought among other nations (England, France, Spain, Native American tribes). Is this really true, and if so, is it really necessary? Does America have the responsibility or even the right to go to other places in the world and use military force in order to accomplish certain goals?Īmerica has, almost since its founding, been involved in every major military conflict that has affected the world. Some people have called the United States of America “The World’s Police Force”.
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