ABSTRACT
On 17 January 1991, U.S. President George Bush gave a televised speech in which he announced the military operation in Iraq:
We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order – a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful – and we will be – we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfil the promise and vision of the UN’s founders.
(Bush 1991)