James Atkins, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, stated in In These Times (August 29, 1991) that the U.S. deployment was unnecessary because Saddam Hussein was a rational person who would have known that an invasion of Saudi Arabia would trigger a swift U.S. military response due to the Carter Doctrine.

Authors

• Person: Douglas Kellner Organization: UCLA
  The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ...

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• The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (http://www.gseis.ucla ... pages.gseis.ucla.edu Douglas Kellner · UCLA via serper

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• Saudi Arabia location
• Saddam Hussein entity