Proud Arabs and Texan Oilmen

Description

With uncertanties caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union reverberating throughout the world, Western commentators hailed the Allies’ victory in the Gulf War as the harbinger of a new moral ideological agenda for the United Nations and the international community.

But three years since the first air strikes were launched at Baghdad, the world is in greater turmoil than ever. The UN operation in Somalia has turned sour, civil war still rages in Angola, the Former USSR seethes like a cauldron and in Bosnia, as the slaughter continues, the Western powers can only agree ‘that something must be done’. In Iraq itself Saddam Hussein remains in power and the Iraqi people continue to suffer malnutrition and epidemics under UN sanctions.

The UN server as a rallying point for the US-Led onslaught on the Gulf. But it failed to deal with the aftermath of that war and has been unwilling or unable to resolve any of the other conflicts that still divide the world where the one remaining superpower calls the shots. The promised ‘new world order’ has proved to be chimera. So what went wrong? First screened in Channel Four’s ‘Critical Eye’ series, Proud Arabs and Texan Oilmen sets out to answer this question. Examining the causes and conduct of the Gulf War, it attempts to provide a framework for understanding and interpreting the chaos of subsequent events.

Drawing on war footage, some of it never before seen on British television, original material from Iraq and interviews with both supporters and opponents of the war – including Tony Benn, Noam Chomsky, Alan Clark, Michael Ignatieff, Rana Kabbani and Olga Maitland – Proud Arabs and Texan Oilmen places the Gulf War int its historical context and raises key questions about what really was at stake.

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