Iran–Iraq War

it is unconstitutional for a President to justify the declaration of war on the basis of the AUMF. Another reason to repeal the 2001 AUMF is because of the absence of a sunset clause. Hypothetically, the President can wage an endless war under the AUMF because no expiration date exists on its authority. This is problematic because Al-Qaeda is no longer a substantial threat, yet the authorization continues to allow administrations to broadly apply this authority to other terrorist groups. The…

Current situation: The initiation of Operation Enduring Freedom has been the beginning of an exceptionally long period of war. In total, 2.7 million service members have been to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, and over half of them have deployed more than once. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University (2015). Furthermore, research also shows that with each additional time that a Soldier is deployed to a combat zone, that the likelihood they are to…

The war on terror has brought forth various unexpected challenges for the United States. In many instances, as history has shown, the minority of those with power have imposed their own self-interest upon the majority of people with little to no power. To combat the abuse of such power, the Writ of Habeas Corpus was written into the Constitution to provide rights to individuals who have been accused of a crime, although select Presidents have found ways to circumvent that right and assert…

and erratic behaviors of President Donald Trump, President Vladimir V. Putin and President Bashar al-Assad, it is difficult to foresee a diplomatic solution to the Syrian civil war. The United States’ continued involvement in battling, providing financial support and assisting specific allies engaged in the Syrian proxy war impacts the coalition between the US and Russia, the affiliation with Syria and dealings amongst middle eastern countries; continual involvement or lack thereof, will result…

“We tortured some folks.” Barack Obama, President of the United States, said in response to the release of the CIA torture report when he addressed post-9/11 America. Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA of spying on the Senate’s intelligence committee. John Brennan, director of the CIA, denied that accusation. However, an investigation brought forth the truth; the CIA had penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee and found that the Senate was preparing a report…

The Syrian civil war is a war between Ba’ath government and the forces who want to remove the government. This has led to peoples’ homes being destroyed and them not knowing what to do, and people calling them Syrian refugees. Around 11 million Syrians have fled their homes due to the civil war, which started in March of 2011, the same time the Syrian civil war started. It has been six years since the war, now 13.5 million refugees are in need of humanitarian assistance. Many refugees have…

Orientalism and moral panic. I argued how the application of some key words such as ‘civilized nation’ or ‘America’ by Bush in his speeches represented the imagined community of American population, united on ‘war on terror’. In the framework of Orientalism, I pointed out how his statements about his war policy could fit into the Orientalism theory framework, where superior ‘west’ is facing inferior ‘orient’. Eventually, I investigated the literature used by Bush to intensify and induce the…

Although the military helps the country stay safe by protecting against foreign threats, it puts a strain on the troops. Nearly 400,000 to 600,000 soldiers are in active duty and approximately 224,000 to 329,000 soldiers have died within the past three war the country has been. Not just does it project the U.S. or puts a strain on its solders it is the nation biggest spending budget. According to the article “Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go” by the National Priorities Project, the…

Hip-hop culture has the ability to effect the way people think about politics and how presidential candidates execute their campaigns. This power has been realized recently, especially by President Obama, but we have yet to truly see it reach its full potential. Hip-hop has been around since about the early 1970s, but never had it realized its potential to effect politics until the 2008 presidential election. The starting point of this realization was during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This…

How can you have such intense feeling about a person’s lack of knowledge, experience and qualifications when it comes to the war and foreign policy and yet, set on the sideline and not feel that you are better suited and qualified for the job? Though I realize that this type of rhetoric is a part of politics, I also know it’s difficult to have such a critical position as the…