To begin, it makes sense to analyze Truman's novel, The Deaths of Others, being that it provides more background to the war itself. Spread throughout Washington DC and other points across the country, are memorials honoring the American war dead, but among these statues and plaques, there is no credit given to the people these soldiers were meant to protect or liberate and within Truman’s novel, he sets out to uncover why Americans appear to be so indifferent to non-American victims of war, the majority of which, died on our count. The first half of Truman’s novel documents the leading up to the Iraq war, beginning with the Puritans. However, the area of focus for this particular case begins in the 20th century regarding oil. Truman begins this outline by iterating that America’s entry into the Persian Gulf in 1990 which was the first large scale military intervention in the region. It was operation Desert Storm that was