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Gulf War

St. Augustine's Just
War Theory and the Persion Gulf War On August 2nd, 1990
the first Iraqi tanks crossed into Kuwait, as part of an invasion
that marked the start of a six-month conflict between the
United States and Iraq. These tanks were ordered to invade
Kuwait by Saddam Hussein, the ruthless dictator of Iraq. The
Iraqi troops looted Kuwaiti businesses and brutalized Kuwaiti
civilians. Saudi Arabia began to fear that they may be invaded
as well, and on August 7th they formally asked President
Bush for US assistance. The US pledged to defend the
Saudis, and to remove the Iraqis from Kuwait. Great masses
of troops from many different nations were deployed in the
Persian Gulf area. At 4:30 PM EST on January 16, 1991, the
first aircraft with orders to attack Iraqi targets were launched
from Saudi Arabia, marking the beginning of Operation Desert
Storm. Dictators like Mr. Hussein cannot be allowed to take
advantage of smaller countries like bullies after lunch money.
There has to be someone to stop them, or they will gain more
and more power and land, just as Adolf Hitler tried to do in
World War II. That someone, in the case of Mr. Hussein, was
the United States, along with a multinational coalition. The US
had just cause in entering a war against Iraq because of Iraq's
invasion of the small and defenseless nation of Kuwait.
Actions such as that must be repulsed. Iraq had no just cause
in invading Kuwait; their reasons were either obscure or for
their benefit. The US had to help Kuwait regain their...