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Originally Posted by FireFly
I'm not sure if you knew this, but the Europeans worked it out on their own too. As a matter of fact, the rise of every great power in history was done as a result of a lot of blood. They'd work it out on their own, all right. That's where it was heading when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Who in the area has the resources to sustain the status of a power if left alone? Which states in the area have would have the ability to fund a large military?
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Iraq invaded Kuwait because of kuwaiti slant drilling into Iraqi oil fields, and only after Iraq was told that the united states would not interfere in the internal conflicts of the middle east. Saddam was hardly out to form some pan-arabic/islamic empire.