What impact did the Gulf War of 1990-1991 betwwen Iraq and Kuwait have on the world as a whole??

Question

What impact did the Gulf War of 1990-1991 betwwen Iraq and Kuwait have on the world as a whole??

Answer 1

The gulf war was a U.N. sanctioned war,.....it was between the U.N. force and Iraq,.....the mission was to get Iraq out of Kuwait,.....so many people say George bush the first, should have gone into Baghdad and took out Saddam, but the U.N. mandate did not allow that,.....after that war, Saddam broke 17 U.N. resolutions,.....now he is out of power, and the U.N. is not doing a thing about it, we the U.S. are taking care of the problem,.....

Answer 2

Well, it did show that the UN Security Council could still pass a resolution of peace enforcement under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, muster up a Peace Enforcement Mission and have that Mission restore the state of things which existed before one nation invaded another. The last time the Security Council did such a thing was in June of 1950, following North Korea's invasion of South Korea. And, although they did not contribute troops to the Peace Enforcement Mission, it was the first instance of the Soviet representative on the Military Staff Committee of the UN taking part in the planning process for the mission.

These events weren't exactly earth-shaking. But, they were also grossly unreported in most western media.

Answer 3

After the Gulf War started pushing Hussein's troops out of Kuwait, retreating Iraqi troops lit the oil fields of Kuwait on fire. This caused six millions of barrels worth of oil to burn up EVERY DAY. 40 millions tons of sand and earth were contaminated with oil. Economically, after Kuwait was reestablished, it took a while to recover do to the fact that their economy is a single resource economy and the harvest of that single resource had been severely inhibited by the oil fires. I suppose this mainly affects Iraq and Kuwait, but the environmental effects on the region affects many countries.

Answer 4

Nada