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It had been one of the 20th century's most decisive wars, but also one of its most influential. Inside the wake of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, America led a coalition of a large number of countries that repelled the Iraqi attack and smashed Iraqi pushes, much of that was captured on live tv set as global systems transmit the images back home. Within the now ironic day of September 11, 1990, Chief executive Bush attended to a joint program of Congress to make clear why he was assembling a coalition of countries to intervene against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. Bush stated, "Out of these troubled times, our fifth aim -- a new world order -- can emerge...A fresh period, freer from the risk of terror, stronger in the quest for justice and more secure in the quest for peace." As his boy would later look at over a decade later in another conflict against Iraq, Chief executive Bush sought to provide the coalition of nearly 40 countries as indicative of multilateralism, even though it was dominated by American pushes. At the time, the Soviet Union was significantly less than a year away from collapsing, leaving the United States as the sole superpower. Actually, the "new world order" that Invoice Clinton and future presidents stepped into was one which allowed for American unilateralism. Since World Conflict II, the United States had protected the West through the Cold Conflict, and Chief executive Kennedy experienced coined the term "Pax Americana" to spell it out his hope of peace for the planet. 30 years later, American presidents now apparently had the opportunity to use America's unchecked power to instill and maintain peace across the world. As occasions have turned out, the attempt to forge Pax Americana would be much easier said than done, and American participation in the centre East has been directly linked with the First Gulf Conflict.
