Abraham's questioning of God has led to one of the most age-old question facing humankind: when are the loss of innocents justified by the saving of others? To elaborate on the Biblical reference, Abraham repeatedly asks God how many people he’ll sacrifice in order to get rid of the bad ones. “If I find fifty good people in Sodom, I will save the city to keep them from being killed. Abraham answered “I am nothing more than the dust on the Earth. Please forgive me Lord, for daring to speak to…
perhaps the greatest impact came from the approaches and policies adopted by Ronald Regan. Some of the ways Regan impacted world affairs include, finally ending the long lasting Cold War, starting the worldwide Nuclear weapons cut down, taking hardline stands in Latin America, and the Iran-contra affair. During this time period other presidents like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and George H.W Bush was also well known for…
Shiite conflicts with Sunnis, Iran and Hezbollah are a dilemma. Iran has a large of Shiite Muslim and Hezbollah also fight with ISIS (Hilleary, 2015). However, they may bring a challenge for U.S. Firstly, Iran was backed by Russia and China, thus, it is not active in case of cooperating with U.S. Secondly, to gain the cooperation with Iran, U.S must loose economic sanctions and the nuclear program of Iran. Therefore, it is an opportunity for Iran to develop its nuclear weapons. Thirdly,…
used his power in a way that helped the World. He knew that he would be able to make a change and he did. By striking the Iran deal he tried to make peace between the nations. The Iran deal offered billions of dollars to the Tehran in exchange to curb Iran’s nuclear program. He had a vision of the world free from nuclear arms, this was meant to ensure that the Iran’s nuclear program will be more peaceful, which is what he thought would be best at the time.…
would U.S foreign policy be based on “soft’ ideas, but would once again be based on strength and power” (Kaufman 125). Reagan also instilled a sense of Nationalistic pride in the nation and focuses on domestic issues like cutting taxes and social programs to help build the economy. It is important for our Administration today and future ones, to instill American pride and…
created with nuclear fission (Hardy and Glen). Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons to nuclear technology to nations that are not recognized as Nuclear Weapon States (Hardy and Glen). Over the last decade, it has been easier for nations to acquire nuclear weapons and build nuclear weapons programs The United States should not support the Global Zero Movement or ratify the…
The United States had been fighting the Cold War since the 1940’s. To end the Cold War, Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 to avoid an armed fight and to being forced to give up global dominance. Overall, while Reagan’s will go down in history for his exemplary actions in the Cold War, his economic policies crippled the United States. Because of…
infected the system in Iran, and simply damaged the systems and would simply destroy it.” stated Eugene Kaspersky from Kaspersky Lab (as cited in Zetter, K. n.d. p. 34). People believe the Stuxnet was created by Israel and United States to infiltrated the Iranians nuclear program. Stuxnet took over the control of centrifuges that spin nuclear material at Iran’s enrichment facilities (Zetter, K. n.d, p. 23). On November of 2010, the International Atomic Energy Agency said “Iran has suspended all…
of 1983, and is just one of the numerous effects of this initiative. The Strategic Defense Initiative was an optimistic program that ultimately helped expedite the end of the Cold War, yet is still a factor of strained U.S. relations with Russia…
through advocacy and creating awareness starting with holding workshops and lecture series on university campuses. This will require building relationships and networking with universities such as the American University of Iraq, University of Tehran in Iran and the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Saudi…