In the Middle East, the Western support for Saddam Hussein in the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, and the Gulf War of the early 1990s, announced the permanent U.S. presence in the world’s most contested oil region.
Im Moyen-Orient, l’assistance occidentale a Saddam Hussein in la guerre che l’Irak e l’Iran nel anni 1980 e la guerre del Golfo del iordo anni 1990, avança la presa permanente ai USA nel rigio pétrolico le plus disputato del mondo.