Should the US have bothered to retake Kuwait, given 9/11 and the war in Iraq?

Question

Or should it have been an Arab problem?

Answer 1

Retaking Kuwait was the right thing to do. I, like a lot of other folks, believe we should have gone in and taken care of Saddam at that time. Who knows, if we had maybe 9/11 would not have happened. We would have shown radical Muslims what would happen if we were attacked.
This also leads to if we had taken care of radical Islam after the first attack on the World Trade Center would 9/11 have happened?
Hind sight is always 20/20 so they say. Mistakes were made concerning the radical Muslims. Not just by the current President but by at least the 3 Presidents before him.

Answer 2

Kuwait was invaded because the US gave Saddam the permission to do so. April Glaspie, the US ambassador to Iraq as the time, told Saddam Hussein:
"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."
The US involvement with Saddam goes back to the First Gulf War against Iran. It is hard to simply point at Kuwait and say, had the US allowed this client tyrant to undo the British fragmentation of the gulf (in order to prevent a powerful Arab state in the region) that the current wave of xenophobic Pan-Arabism would not have taken place.
I would go say that had the US removed its military presence from the Gulf and recanted teh Carter Doctrine, 9/11 would have been avoided. Then again, for Al Qaida to have formed, all that was necessary was for the US to train Mujahadeen and saturate the region with arms and terrorist expertise during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Which is to say, there is much to change in US foreign policy if Americans ever wish to live in peace.

Answer 3

Maybe you should get your facts and history straight by first actually reading what has happened in that area of the Middle East. First, The U.S. never did "take" Kuwait (evidently you are referring to the Iraq invasion of that country in the early 1990's). After we initiated Desert Storm, the U.S. (and our allies) promptly destroyed and ran the Iraqi invaders out of Kuwait enabling the citizens of Kuwait to reclaim their land and government. Second, the "9/11" that you are referring to evidently has reference to the date September 11, 2001. The war in Iraq commenced in the Spring of 2003 Kuwait had (or has) absolutely no bearing on our present actions in the Iraq conflict that started in 2003. So it never was an issue of "retaking" Kuwait. Try reading better next time youngster.

Answer 4

Of course we should have. And we didn't do it by ourselves either. The biggest problem was that the Arab backers at the time wanted to leave Saddam in power. That was a stupid thing to do, but the spineless bastards didn't want to do anything more than toss him out of Kuwait.