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The ghosts of the Vietnam War hovered over Washington in August 1990, fifteen years after that conflict had ended. The “Vietnam syndrome,” the nation’s self-conscious lack of confidence about its ability to use military force, would not end until the United States proved it could again effectively project military power overseas.1 On August 2, 1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein gave President George H. W. Bush an opportunity to exorcise the demons of Vietnam.
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Mann, R. (2010). The Persian Gulf War. In: Wartime Dissent in America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230111967_12
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