a U.S Intervention

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…threats all failed to convince Noriega to resign, as well as Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait. Lengthy negotiations and moderate means may send the wrong signals to corrupt authoritarian leaders who play foreign policy games by their own rules. Perhaps if the United States had delivered a tougher and yet clearer message up front and in the beginning of the conflict a cleaner and more efficient outcome would have prevailed, saving both lives and resorces.