M E STU 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Colin Powell, Carter Doctrine, Al-Qaeda

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Middle Eastern Studies
• Course: M E STU 10
• Professor: Mahmood Monshipouri

Document Summary

Iraq has long claimed kuwait as its own. Geographic uncertainty: disputed kuwait-iraq border: key petroleum fields lie on ambiguous border. Kuwait backed iraq through loans and credits. Iraq asked kuwait to dismiss debt but kuwait demanded payment: kuwait pumped oil from iraq (taking iraqi oil) Glaspie admitted to hussein that no us-kuwait military alliance exist: (cid:862)g(cid:396)ee(cid:374) light(cid:863) to i(cid:374)(cid:448)ade ku(cid:449)ait (cid:862)we ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)o opi(cid:374)io(cid:374) o(cid:374) the a(cid:396)a(cid:271)-arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with. Sole responsibility: iraqi withdrawal from occupied kuwait. Dictators like hussein stabilized the regions: best interest of us. A stable iraq was a counterweight for iran: colin powell. Muslim states (particularly saudi arabia) would not support us invasion of iraq: they only supported the recovery of kuwaiti independence. Ca(cid:396)te(cid:396) do(cid:272)t(cid:396)i(cid:374)e: a(cid:374)y assault o(cid:374) the west"s middle easte(cid:396)(cid:374) oil supplies (cid:862)(cid:449)ill (cid:271)e (cid:396)ega(cid:396)ded as a(cid:374) assault o(cid:374) the (cid:448)ital i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ests of the u (cid:863) 1st gulf war -> 2003 war on iraq.