Foreign Policy
After the leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, invaded and sanctioned neighboring Kuwait the United States and United Nations acted immediately. The Gulf War officially began on January 17, 1991 when an air fight began between Iraq and the United States and its' allies, although the U.S. had troops near Iraq since the previous summer. Then on February 27, 1991, just 3 days after ground troops had been sent into Iraq sanctioned Kuwait, President Bush of the U.S. suspended all air attacks and ground troops. During this time the U.S. and its' allies said their goal was to protect vulnerable countries in the Middle East from aggressive Iraq. However, today the war is seen of a war fought to protect national interest of oil which was a resource very important to political leaders and the U.S. economy. This war was a combination of two foreign policies, Collective Security and Internationalism. It was Collective Security because the countries did work with other United Nations members and Middle Eastern countries to try and solve the issue. It is also Collective Security because the U.S. involved themselves because of national interest in oil, and to safeguard the security of other countries, or in other word acting as the world’s “Policemen.”