Middle East Issues

The continuous entanglements with the Middle East that the United States has experienced throughout the past two decades have raised much controversy among the American people. As the wars and strife continue, many people have either grown bored and stopped discussing the issues regularly or have become disgusted with the American governments approach to the issue. With relatively few exceptions, it seems that the majority of American citizens wish to see out militaries interaction with the Middle East change in some fashion. Some are eager for America to pull all of the military forces out and remain separate from the problems that are left behind; others consider our involvement to be necessary for the world’s safety and wellbeing, even …show more content…
There is a playbook, he says, that the United States follows much too often in its interactions with potential adversaries. The playbook, while useful and necessary when the country is in danger of attack, is used much too often, and without enough thought or consideration, in other situations. Following the playbook has made American responses predictable and manipulatable. If America does not learn to change their responses depending on the situation, Obama believes that the country will be pushed into a trap. As we are already caught in a few traps of our own making in the Middle East, the last thing the country needs is to be manipulated by outside forces into one due to …show more content…
While some of Assad’s enemies were probably hurt during the attack, they were not the only ones. Men and women who were not part of the conflict were forced into it by poison. How can a powerful country not try to stop those actions? However, before America tries to be the hero, we need to ask ourselves, whether getting militarily involved in the situation will cause more problems than it solves. Just taking down Assad will do very little in the long run other than make Russia very mad. Syria will still have ruined cities and nowhere for the people to live, there will still be ISIS, many militias, Russia, and others to contend with, and on top of that there will be a very dangerous power vacuum. America cannot enter Syria without expecting to stay there for a very long time, losing quite a bit of money, resources, and lives in the process. We need to accept that entering the war means staying in it or leaving the country in a similar or worse