re King Hussein of Jordan, and the leader of Israel was Yitzhak Shamir.
James Turner Johnson and George Weigel, in Just War and the Gulf War, argue that there were many important and positive results of the Gulf War:
Restoring the territorial integrity and governmental autonomy of Kuwait, reestablishing respect for the anti-aggression rule of international law, restoring credibility to the moral and legal guidelines for resort to force and for fighting justly, restoring to the United Nations the ability to act in the world as its designers intended---these are goals deeply worthy in themselves and fundamental to the preservation of international peace (Johnson and Weigel 40).
The claim in the Iraq War is that the massive and lengthy aerial bombardment of Iraqi troops was necessary in order to reduce overall casualties. The war on the ground was a brief on
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