maintains HusseinÆs mentality characterizes a mindset that orchestrated the first World Trade Center bombing, in The GeneralÆs War Gordon (1995) maintains that the United States military actions during the first Gulf War did not go far enough to undermine HusseinÆs power. The author describes how mismanagement of the war and flawed policy from the Bush administration enabled Hussein to bolster power aimed at building stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. The authors describe how no one with authority challenged poor decisions on behalf of men like General Schwarzkopf, thus enabling Hussein to remain powerful, ôA strong-will and confidant commander would have challenged Schwarzkopf...The war was coming to an end before the job was completed, but nobody with enough rank to change that decision objectedö (Gordon, 1995, 419).
Politically, it is possible to understand the Iraqi invasion of its smaller and less militarily equipped neighbor as one of the consequences of the disequilibrium in the regional balance of power that had occurred in the Persian Gulf. This disequilibrium resulted from two political developments in the Persian Gulf that had an impact on the region as well as the international community. The first was the changed international orientation of Iran under its revolutionary regime, wh
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