BONUS LINK: My entire (so far) grad school notes collection can be found here.
Mearsheimer and Walt, An Unnecessary War, 2003
- Here the authors take apart the notion of intervention/war
in Iraq as a preventive measure against an undeterrable lunatic Saddam
Hussein.
- Written from a
realist perspective where they show Saddam as a leader trying to survive; he
initiated the wars for realist reason
- Iran-Iraq war we were on his side and fed him intel that
allowed him to use his biological weapons against Iran.
- in the Gulf War, State Dept earlier told Saddam we had no
part in any border disputes with Kuwait—was this true, or was the truth more
nuanced?
- Finally, it didn’t
matter whether Saddam had WMDs or nukes, because we could use deterrence
against him—we had bigger weapons and nuclear arsenal. Saddam was a survivor and would have
caved.
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