Opposition to the Iraq War

the world that the United States military would soon be conducting operations in Iraq to free its people. Only two years after the biggest terrorist attack on America, Americans no longer felt safe. President Bush stormed through Iraq in search of the alleged nuclear weapons Saddam’s regime was said to have only to come up empty-handed. He also accused the Iraqi government of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda. The War on Terror was still fresh in American minds and citizens and soldiers alike…

Operation Desert Fox occurred in Iraq from 16th – 19th of December 1998. Operation Desert Fox was a four day military bombing campaign organised by the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The United States and the United Kingdom justified the strikes as Iraq had not complied with the UNSC’s resolutions and kept interfering with the UNSC’s weapons inspectors. Another main reason the bombing occurred was to punish Saddam Hussein's regime with military force in the hope of removing…

guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The second was to placate "moderates" within the Iranian government in order to secure the release of American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon and to influence Iranian foreign policy in a pro-Western direction. Despite the strong opposition of the Reagan administration, the Democratic-controlled Congress enacted legislation,…

humanitarian effort to assist Somalia during a civil war. In opposition to dictator Mohammed Siad Barre’s favoritism of his own clan, opposing clans banned together to successfully oust Barre from power, throwing Somalia into a civil war. War factions cut off the Somali’s from food resources and demolished the lands and its people. In response, the U.S. sent aide in the form of food, which was…

Throughout human existence, war has been a prevalent issue amongst countries fighting for their prominence. Using Neta Crawford’s Just War Theory, the prompt’s hypothetical situation meets all requirements for jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and jus post bellum (Crawford, 2003). War in the Middle East is justified on the grounds of it being self-defense used to disable terrorist groups in the region and bring an end to the stranglehold ISIS has on the area. The initiation of war is just, given the…

From the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration, the War in Iraq has seen different foreign policies mandated; while the U.S.’s policy on democracy promotion has swayed from pro-promotion, to con, and back again. Examining these two foreign policies will provide a closer look at how domestic politics interferes with foreign policy decisions. No area of U.S. foreign policy has been more controversial as the Presidents war powers. The President of the United States holds a position of…

The Cold War long defined American foreign policy. American foreign policy was forced to embody American national identity by advocating for economic freedom and countering the Soviet Union across the globe. Once the Cold War ended, the U.S. faced a world with new actors and new challenges. This new world necessitated a new foreign policy as well. After the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy struggled to meet different challenges, but its core objective of spreading American ideology remained. The…

producer in the Middle East. Iraq accused Kuwait of breaking agreements that limit oil production within the region, which led to oil prices being brought down and Iraq losing billions of dollars. By invading Kuwait and burning the oil fields Saddam made the biggest mistake of his presidency by creating environmental disaster for both countries and the degradation of Iraq as a whole. President Bush goal in entering the war was to recover the stolen oil from the Iraq and ensure…

The Iraq War and how it has affected the Middle East Globalization is a force that affects almost every person on the planet in one way or another; weather it’s through trade and diplomacy or through cultural exchanges. Iraq has experienced a large increase in the amount of attention it has been receiving in past years as it struggles out of one war into another conflict. This attention has increased the amount of interaction Iraq has with the rest of the world and these interactions have left…

Wars are what define the success of a country; if you win, then the country is considered strong; if you lose, the country is considered weak. This, however, does not determine how justified the country was in deciding to go to war. The Mexican American War marked the first time the U.S. fought on foreign soil. This war began over a border dispute between America and Mexico. It started with Texas gaining independence from Mexico in 1836. At first the U.S. did not want Texas to join the Union due…