Should U.S. Troops Have Gone on to Baghdad?

WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the renewed Iraqi threat to Kuwait, the key question of the Gulf War in 1991 hovers, still unresolved, over this new period: Should the United States have gone all the way to Baghdad? Sometimes it is paraphrased: Should we have destroyed Saddam? And occasionally it is couched in the affirmative, as in words from the White House this week: “We mustn’t make the same mistakes again.”