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Annotated Bibliography: U.S. Policy and Iraq

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: UNITED STATES POLICY OBJECTIVES TOWARD IRAQ AND SADDAM HUSSEIN

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 politicians who favor weak security enforcement due to the false notion that international military threats have subsided. A new conservative Reagan style foreign policy strategy would include increasing the defense budget by $60-$80 billion, educating citizens on the importance of the United States military abroad, expanding the army reserves, and instilling a moral goal in foreign policy. In the Middle East, the United States already maintains the dep...

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