ingpositive activity in the trading of shares. Also by going to war, it wouldcreate jobs in many sectors of the economy from the defense contractors tothe service industries down the line. The main reason that Coalition was formed was to protect the "vitalinterests" in the often unstable Middle East. "The Middle East had been thesource of many of the world's wars after World War II, sometimes almost topoint of going nuclear."4 The Arab partners in the Coalition joined theunion to prevent what had happened to Kuwait to occur to them. The UnitedStates and the other Western partners wanted to ensure a steady supply ofcheap oil and the invasion of Kuwait had risen the price of oil along withcreating instability in the Middle East. The best way to restore order tothe region and create some stability was to force Iraq out of Kuwait andseverely weaken his government and military which the Allies weresuccessful in doing. 4AP Press Toronto Star (February 14, 1991) A13 Another reason that has been suggested is that Iraq was permitted toinvade Kuwait just to give the U.S. an excuse to attack the Iraqis so thatthey would no longer be a threat to other countries in the region. Thiswould also make the Arab nations dependent on the Americans for theirdefense so that they would not try to attempt hostile actions in terms ofincreasing the cost of the oil to them or limiting the production ofpetroleum as had been demonstrated by the OPEC nations in the 1970s. George Herbert Walker Bush also had personal reasons as to why hewanted Iraq to leave Kuwait. As the youngest fighter pilot in the Navyduring World War II, he flew in many missions before being shot down."These missions helped to shape his beliefs that the U.S. should be like aglobal policeman and Saddam Hussein must be stopped just as Hitler shouldhave been stopped from breaking the conditions of the treaties the Germanssigned ending World War I."1 Another reason he felt he had to tak...
