Annotated Bibliography: U.S. Policy and Iraq

Huntington, S. P. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72 (Summer 1993): 22-49.

The rallying of substantial sections of Arab elites and publics behind Saddam Hussein caused those Arab governments in the anti-Iraq coalition to moderate their activities and temper their public statements. Arab governments opposed or distanced themselves from subsequent Western efforts to apply pressure on Iraq, including enforcement of a no-fly zone in the summer of 1992 and the bombing of Iraq in January 1993. The Western-Soviet-Turkish-Arab anti-Iraq coalition of 1990 had by 1993 become a coalition of almost only the West and Kuwait against Iraq.

Future international conflicts will be a direct result of the cultural, historic, ethnic and religious differences that make civilizations unique. Westerners erroneously assume that other civilizations can and will embrace individualism and democracy, but Confucian, Islamic, Japanese Hindu and other groups do not view the Western outlook as desirable. The differences among civilizations hamper peace efforts and attempts at economic integration.

Kristol, W., and Kagan, R. "Toward A Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy." Foreign Affairs 75 (July-August 1996): 18-32.

United States foreign policy should return to the stressing United States global dominance in the style of Ronald Reagan. The post Cold War foreign policy of the present is being undermined by

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2. The changing political landscape since the Cold War has illustrated the need for the United States to rethink its commitment to so-called heroic conflicts. Instead of waiting for an opportunity such as was presented in Desert Storm, the United States should be willing to engage in siege conflicts of attrition. Such a policy would have proven useful in ethnic conflicts such as in Bosnia, where action was delayed because United States military commanders could not guarantee a quick victory. Now that the Cold War no longer suppresses hot wars, the entire culture of disciplined restraint in the use of force is in dissolution. Except for Iraq's wars, the consequences have chiefly been manifest within the territories that had been Soviet, as well as Yugoslav. McNamara, T. E. "Proliferation Dangers to U.S. Security in the Post-Cold War World." US Department of State Dispatch 7 (May 6, 1996): 232-236. The post-Cold War era presents security problems for the United States. Nations and individuals, such as the Japanese cult of nerve gas poisoners, still pose a threat with their terrorism to national and world security. One weapon that can be used to force compliance with nonproliferation is economic sanctions. Iraq is a case in
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