Talk:Tripwire force

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In the "Examples in Theory" section: "Paul K. Davis and John Arquilla have argued that the United States should have placed a tripwire force in Kuwait prior to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as a method of signaling to Iraq the commitment of the U.S. to an armed response. In this way, they state, the Gulf War might have been avoided."

This is rubbish. The most positive interpretation of this would be Monday Morning Quarterbacking, a Hindsight bias fallacy. As our ambassador stated to Saddam Hussein: "The American ambassador declared to her Iraqi interlocutor that Washington, "inspired by the friendship and not by confrontation, does not have an opinion" on the disagreement between Kuwait and Iraq, stating "we have no opinion on the Arab–Arab conflicts"." Source alternative version as well The US Ambassador used diplomatic-double-talk to tell Saddam Hussein that "we don't care what you do". The State Department hid her for over a year to prevent her from testifying before the Senate about what she said to the dictator. Tangurena (talk) 13:56, 16 August 2019 (UTC)