HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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The United Nations wanted to completely destroy the country of Iraq.
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The only job of the United Nations is military action around the world.
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The economies of many countries depend on oil and Iraq’s actions threatened that supply.
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The United Nations has to intervene whenever any member nation has a conflict with another country.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1991, the United States led a UN coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraq.
Detailed explanation-2: -Security Council declared on August 2, the very day of the invasion, that the Iraqi action of ignoring the basic order of the international community was a violation of international law and adopted Resolution 660, which required the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Iraqi forces.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War (1990–91), was an international conflict triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why did US and coalition troops try to stop Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait? The world depended on Kuwait for oil.
Detailed explanation-5: -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-6: -Iraq War Resolution Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a “threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region".