ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues that the aftermath of the Gulf war reveals that little of value was gained by the human and environmental holocaust. The Gulf war brutalized United States (US) culture and created the conditions for resurgence of militarism that deflected attention from pressing social and economic problems. The Gulf war was a great triumph for George Bush, establishing him as the leader of the Neoimperialist World Order. In the aftermath of the Gulf war, there was a brief revelation of the US high-tech massacre of the fleeing Iraqis during the last two days of the war. In addition to the human holocaust produced by the massacre of Iraqis by the US-led coalition and the systematic destruction of Iraq's infrastructure, the Gulf war also produced an environmental holocaust. As the war progressed, the media allowed fewer and fewer anti-war voices to spoil the Great Celebration.
