Civil War Imperialism

Over a century after Perry’s successful negotiations with the Japanese, the United States seemed to have forgotten the diplomatic approach that transformed a hermit nation into one of the most powerful empires of the twentieth century. In 2003, the United States initiated a war that was directed towards the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and, in a vague sense, terrorism in the Middle East. After ten years of fighting, the Middle East is undeniably in a state of shambles. While the U.S currently occupied the states of Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorist organization, such as the Islamic State, are rising at alarming rates and neighboring nations in the Middle East are falling into civil war. So, after all of this time, one must ask how the self-proclaimed …show more content…
Yet non-Western societies continue to cling to their own cultures, and what is universalism for the West manifests itself as imperialism to the rest.” (112-113). Ever since the U.S declared a crusade on terror and uprooted Saddam’s government, America has implemented a form of military governorship in Iraq and Afghanistan while simultaneously nurturing a state that would promote the Western ideals of democracy. What the U.S still does not seem to understand is that the people of the Arab nations are and will continue to resist this influence due to the Middle East’s deep-rooted history in Islam. Since the founding of Muslim faith, the people of the Middle East have resided continuously under sharia law for over a thousand years. It should come with no surprise that the Arab world would revolt at the threat of a set of alien ideas that contradict their values of a God ordained laws, the roles of men and women, and many other vital doctrines of