Iran–Iraq War

Horror endorsed through duty and a review of its controversy led many to question the ethics of being truly and fully obedient. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, journalist and author of “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism”, discusses the possible reasons why the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal occurred (75-77). Causing people to wonder how supposedly sane human beings could accomplish such insane acts, the American soldiers that were a share of this horrific crime against humanity displayed no…

In response to Assad gassing and killing children in Syria, President Barack Obama argues that something has to be done to stop Assad from using chemical weapons in his speech “Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Syria.” He effectively builds his argument by using imagery, logos, and ethos. Obama starts his speech off by using vivid imagery of “(syrian) Men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas. Others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath. A father…

ISIS Supporters Appear to Behead French Captive The French President today censured the obvious executing of a French mountain climber on account of Algerian activists, who promise their fidelity to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in another feature. The feature, which seemed online today, demonstrates a man who seems, by all accounts, to be 55-year-old Nice local Herve Gourdel stooping before a few furnished activists as an announcement is made by one of them in Arabic. Close to…

Shaheen writes about how ISIS has displaced many of these minority religions. In their most recent offence at the time in Iraq, they had uprooted many Chaldean Christians, a religious minority that had been in the area for a great amount of…

Anwar al Sadat to rage war against Israel. To aid Egypt and Syria, the Soviet Union supplied the arms…

truth of President Donald Trump’s administration not making full efforts for new strategies to end the war. Coll was influenced to write the article by the Taliban’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid’s open letter to Trump, in which he states that the U.S cannot defeat the Taliban. Throughout Coll’s article he is straightforward on persuading the public that Trump has not done anything in the war and that it will not end soon. With the use of satire Coll states that Trump has contradicted himself…

Once World War 1 came and the Ottoman Empire fell, France came in and conquered the lands known today as Syria. The French rule can be characterized as oppressive at best since the French attempted to assimilate Syrians into French culture and tried to undermine their…

mistake made by the Bush administration to have abandoned Afghanistan at a crucial time and divert bulk of the resources to Iraq. I believe that the war in Afghanistan had prolonged than any war in the U.S history and president Obama has said, that he doesn't believe in endless wars. I would support the president on this idea of rejecting the engagement into endless wars. However, the situation in Afghanistan is not near what the white house had hoped for. If the president keeps troops in…

Did we do the Right Thing? This refection paper reflects back on a time in the military. My husband and I were young E-6 in the military; living in government off post housing. We were the senior Non-commission Officers of the floor. One evening when we arrived on our floor we heard loud voices which sounded like an altercation between a couples on our floor. Once we enter our apartment one of the children knotted on our door and said, “My mother and father are fighting”. Since my husband was…

On December 17, 2014, Obama made the announcement that he would begin a new stage in relations with the island to leave behind the "failed policies" of the Cold War. The openings of the embassies in both nations and the progressive normalization of the economic sanctions that the US has on Cuba are some of the points included in the plan to strengthen the relationship. Obama made the decision to remove the program…