HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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Kuwait threatened to place an embargo on all US goods if the US did not provide military support
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Much of the oil resources that the US relied on were imported from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
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Terrorist attacks in US territory carried out by groups based in Southwest Asia drew the country into war
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Public opinion in the US favored overthrowing the Saudi Arabian leader due to his violations of human rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -Indeed, oil was driving force behind the invasion and would lead to U.S. military involvement. “The fundamental U.S. interest in the security of the Persian Gulf is oil, ‘’ Paul Wolfowitz, under secretary of defense for policy in the George H. W. Bush administration, told Defense Secretary Dick Cheney.
Detailed explanation-2: -"The U.S. imports oil because consumption of oil products-about 20 million barrels per day-is greater than the quantity of crude oil it produces, about 18 million barrels per day, ‘’ Kaufmann said. “This difference, about 2-3 million barrels per day, is much smaller than previous years."
Detailed explanation-3: -It often makes more sense for the refineries in the gulf to export some of their gasoline to Mexico, rather than expensively ship their product all the way to the east coast of the U.S., which gets cheaper gasoline from Europe. oil prices down which keeps prices in the U.S. lower.
Detailed explanation-4: -U.S. oil is a light, sweet oil. Our U.S. refineries, particularly in the Gulf Coast, are geared-many of them-to take a heavier barrel. Those barrels tend to come from the Middle East. They also come from Latin America.