Dan Quayle

About the Author: Dan Quayle is the vice president of the United States, and a former U.S. senator from Indiana. The following viewpoint is a speech delivered by Quayle to the Foreign Policy Research Institute conference in Washington, D.C. on December 18, 1990.

The more we learn about Saddam Hussein's barbarism in Kuwait, the clearer it becomes that the crisis is not, as Neville Chamberlain once said of Czechoslovakia, "A quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing." Rather, Kuwait's plight and the future security of the Gulf are vital issues that affect us all— strategically, economically, and morally. But before addressing some of the issues your conference poses, I would like to take just a moment to pay tribute to the valor of some...