Iran–Iraq War

of weakness and fear, resulting in them jumping on his bandwagon of waging war. By saying this, he is saying they only have two choices and this causes a problem of forcing everyone listening to only have a single perspective. The audience of Bush’s speech was looking for a leader and were full heartedly putting there trust into Bush, so by him giving only two choices, it resulted in a large amount of supporters to wage war on Afghanistan. Another example of the bandwagon device being used is…

conflict is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). America for years has had ties to the Middle East. They now feel they must aid the Middle East when they are in a time of need. We are one nation, 313,900,000 people, now dealing with a terrorist group. Stopping ISIS from spreading in to Syria is our next step for the safety of Americans everywhere, as ISIS has targeted the United States. ISIS is not only worrying America, but also the countries neighboring…

A change in the paradigm might ascend in moments of grief and profound disarray. The end of the Cold War marked the end of the bipolar world, the expansion of the rapid mode of capitalist production and the permeating of globalization. However the most profound day in history that prompted the greatest shift in the international system was September 11th, 2001. The September 11th terrorist incursion on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City resonated a large kink in an already…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has attacked American embassies is Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Libya. As a result, killing hundreds of United States civilians, soldiers and personnel of the State Department. The President has issued an executive order to deploy 100,000 troops into Iraq and Syria; with the objective of putting and end to ISIS power. President Assad 's supported ISIS through instilling jihadist extremism within his citizens of his country. He as exacerbated instability in the…

I was thrilled to be in Hawaii, and it didn 't take long for me to overcome my fear of leaving my family and friends behind. After settling into housing on Schofield Barracks, it didn 't take long for me to get acquainted with the neighborhood wives. Nor, did it take long for them to share their problems they were encountering in their marriages since transferring here. However, I was not prepared to face the reality and rumors I had heard, regarding the high divorce rate for military families…

Not long ago, in 2003, the US Congress so loathed French President Jacques Chirac’s dissent on the Iraq War that it renamed French fries and French toast in its cafeterias to “freedom fries” and “freedom toast” as a firm token of its displeasure. Although the American constitution is a stellar example of secular lawmaking, not least for its fourteenth…

DeMya Jolly The Iraq Body Count project was founded in 2003 by volunteers from the United Kingdom and the United States. The volunteers felt an obligation to ensure that the innocent civilians who were killed weren’t forgotten. The IBC team consists of journalist and media support workers from around the world. The media workers are out in the dangerous and heavy armed streets of Iraq risking their lives daily to report the wars catastrophes. The article in which most of the information comes…

calls Iraq soldiers) is a direct byproduct of Orientalist imagery and selective history. In the movie, there is literally almost no discourse about why the Iraq war is happening; rather, it is just presumed that everyone knows the war is happening because Middle-Eastern savages decided to bomb American buildings, and the wonderfully humanitarian West decided the best way to bring peace to this region was to invade and blow up their buildings. The background knowledge of wars like the Iraq War…

He says ISIS is at least at 200,000 men fighting for the Islamic State. He also added that ISIS now controls an area that is about one third of Iraq and about one third of Syria which adds up to about the size of Great Britain (Cockburn 2014). This size difference is one of the reasons why the United States originally believed that the countries within the Middle East could handle the militant…

The war itself has many different actors aiding both sides. At the current time there is a lot of confusion on who allies with who. In many cases, groups side with certain issues and disagree with them on others, thus fighting them at times. This causes much confusion and makes it difficult to decide who the real enemy is. The United States and Russia both play large roles in the civil war going on. Russia sees the Assad Regime as the legitimate…