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Article: Policing the Gulf - and the world. (United States foreign policy)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- October 15, 1990
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POLICING THE GULF--AND THE WORLD "In the life of a nation," President Bush declared on August 8, "we're called upon to define who we are and what we believe." Those words, spoken as the first detachments of U.S. soldiers were arriving in Saudi Arabia, are perhaps the most revealing yet uttered on the Persian Gulf crisis. More than anything else -- more than the price of oil, or the configuration of power in the Middle East -- the decision to send troops concerns the nature of America's national identity; specifically, America's role as a global power in the post-cold war environment. If Bush and his associates have their way, the United States will emerge from the ...