Nor did he intervene on behalf of the Shia and Kurdish uprisings that erupted just after the war ended early in 1991. To him, intervention would have placed US soldiers in the midst of a complex domestic struggle, one that would have cost enormous resources to sort out if it could be sorted out at all.
在1991年对伊战后，老布什也没有介入土耳其什叶派和库尔德人之间的冲突。他认为，如果派兵的话会使得美国士兵处于土耳其复杂的国内争斗。如果不能彻底解决问题的话，还是不要介入的好。