Desert storm be related to?

Question: What event in the past can the Gulf war/Desert storm be related to!?
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~I would equate the US invasions with the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 or with the USSR/Warsaw Pact invasion of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968!. In each instance, a superpower was displeased with the direction in which a sovereign nation was moving, such direction being adverse to the interests (economic mostly) of the superpower and so the superpower unleashed its military might on the much smaller and weaker 'foe', without just cause, legitimate provocation or pretense of legal or moral justification!.

Vietnam comes to mind as well!. Throughout WWII, Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh were valued US friends and allies!. After the war, FDR and HST stabbed them in the back!. The US then agreed to the division of Vietnam and to the occupation of both North and South by US allies!. The backstabbing continued in 1946 when the British pulled out and gave Indochina to the French, then again in 1954 when the Viet Mihn defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu!. The next double cross was when the US installed the ruthless dictator Ngo Dinh Diem in power rather than the reform minded and wildly popular freedom fighter and Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Mihn, thus setting the stage for the following unwinnable war and the deaths of millions!. The US continued to support Diem at the expense of the freedom, liberty and very lives of the Vietnamese people!. Finally realizing that supporting and protecting such a corrupt, bloodthirsty mad man as Diem was not 'winning the hearts and minds' of the Vietnamese people (who, after all, still wanted the mandated elections to reunify their nation and who still wanted the free and internationally supervised elections required by the 1954 Geneva Accords and who still would have elected Ho in a landslide - he was, after all, the Vietnamese equivalent of George Washington), JFK approved the assassination of Diem and ordered CIA to finance and help with both the planning and execution of it!.

Saddam was on of the six man hit team organized by CIA to overthrow the government of Iraq and to assassinate the socialist reformist Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim in 1959!. That plan was botched in 1959, but finally bore fruit in 1963 when Qassim's government was toppled and Quassim was executed!. Saddam's Baath Party was installed in power with no small help from CIA!. Like Diem, Saddam stopped dancing to Uncle Sam's tune and he had to go!. As in Vietnam and Afghanistan, the US is now involved in a guerrilla war which cannot be won because the Iraqi nationalists who are rightfully ticked off about the presence of a foreign invader in their homeland are not going to lay down and go away!.

Afghanistan is another example!. After the US, via the CIA, helped overthrow the reform government of Premier Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953, replacing it with Shah Reza Pahlavi and then keeping the Shah on the Peacock throne by creating, organizing, training and assissting the Shah's secret police and death squads (SAVAT), the Iranian nationalists and Muslim fundamentalists tried in vain for a generation to take their country back!. In 1979, the succeeded!. The Muslim fundamentalist and nationalist movements spread and spilled across the Iran border!.

Even while the embassy hostages were being held, the CIA armed and trained those insurgents, who were trying to take over Afghanistan!. The Afghan government in Kabul requested assistance from Their Soviet allies and the Soviet "invasion" followed!. Actually, when the USSR crossed the border, it was NOT an invasion!. Moscow was answering a call for help from its allies in Kabul!. Through such allies as the Communist Chinese, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and like paradigms of freedom and human rights, CIA escalated the war and kept it going!. The "freedom fighters" became the Taliban!. One of the CIA spawned "patriots" was Osama bin Laden!. Times changed!. The Afghan warlords won and it was business as usual in Afghanistan!. However, the Mujahideen and Taleban were no longer called a patriotic organizations of freedom fighters by the US and bin Laden and his buddies were no longer called the noble warriors that they had been identified as by Washington for almost a decade!. Although they continued to do the things they had been taught and trained to do by their CIA sponsors, often with the weapons that had been provided to them by their CIA masters, they suddenly were labeled 'terrorists'!. More importantly, permission to build the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline was denied!. Interestingly enough, within hours of the time the first US troops landed in Afghanistan, construction on the pipeline began!. Coincidence, I suppose!.

There are any number of parallels that can be drawn to the Gulf Wars!. Since 1947, when it was formed, the CIA has organized, directed, financed and participated in countless insurgencies around the globe, only to then assassinate or overthrow the ruthless governments which had been installed after the successful coups when the puppet dictators refused to jump at the command of the Washington puppet masters!. Frequently, military action on one scale or another, followed (witness Iran/Iraq, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Haiti, Somalia, Angola, Indonesia or the Philippines, to name but a few)!.

As to illegal, immoral and unjustified invasions of one sovereign nation by another through national armed forces rather than covert operations by secret police and like national agencies, you have the US invasions of Canada and Mexico, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the French invasions of Algeria and Indochina, Napoleon, the German invasions of Poland and the USSR, the USSR invasions of Poland, and a myriad of examples from classic Egyptian, Babylonian, Roman, Grecian and Chinese periods, not to mention the Middle Ages, the Age of Exploration and the European conquest of the Western Hemisphere or the myriad examples of one Native American tribe invading the lands of another!.

Despite what Washington would beg you to believe (and which so many so gullibly do - or once did - believe) Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and the Gulf Wars are no different than any other invasion of one sovereign nation by another!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

!.The Korean War!.
The communist North Korea invaded the rich small South Korea!. So, the US sent its troops to defend it against the communist invader!.

Saddam Hussein, who idealizes Joseph Stalin, had invaded his small but rich neighbor Kuwait!. The US sent its troops & succeeded in Liberating Kuwait!.

The most important different is that Saddam didn't have a world superpower backing him against the US!. Not even the USSR!.Www@QuestionHome@Com