Saddam Hussein

Foreign Policy After 9/11 After the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon September 11, 2001, the United States was completely changed forever. Everyone's lives changed drastically that day. There was a new threat to America and no way to fight this new enemy head on. For many people, the word terrorist was heard before, but Americans never would have expected that this would ever happen to us. We were caught off guard and severely damaged. After the attack, our foreign policy was…

United States seemed to have forgotten the diplomatic approach that transformed a hermit nation into one of the most powerful empires of the twentieth century. In 2003, the United States initiated a war that was directed towards the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and, in a vague sense, terrorism in the Middle East. After ten years of fighting, the Middle East is undeniably in a state of shambles. While the U.S currently occupied the states of Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorist organization, such…

The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in Iraq. The Kurdish people have had to deal with a lot of political statuses over their history. They’ve experienced a recent and troubled history of let-down, abuse, and genocide. After the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Iraqi Kurds, now governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government, face a crossroads in the political trajectory of Iraqi Kurdistan. Factors that play into their future include Kurdish relationships with the United States,…

United States of America the World Police? As stated by President Theodore Roosevelt, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”. (“Theodore,”1901)Today this quote have greatly summarize American’s involvement in the international crisis and dilemma. Currently, there are three major involvements that America was in were Vietnam War, Iraq war, and ISIS. Henceforth, they are look upon by a world to get involved since they are the strongest military. Furthermore, we are placed…

This research is crucial to understanding the modern political and religious climate surrounding radical Islam. Islam is currently going through trials and tribulations and posed with the ultimate question of pluralism. Christianity seemed to to go through this crucible in the seventeenth century with the Enlightenment. While Christianity always had small-scale struggles regarding religious freedom post-Enlightenment with the majority Protestant persecution of Catholics, the question of…

That was the Americans initial fight, but the battle soon shifted to Iraq. In an interview President Bush said that he was lead to believe that Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs, or had access to them. President Bush was also told that he has seemed to have lost many Americans support in this war. He replied “I would hope they 'd want us to succeed before we get out of there. That 's a decision I had to…

The Vietnam War - Yesterday and Today (Cool Intro that i can't think of) The United States has taken place in a number of wars that had an innumerable amount of effects, both good and bad, on the history of us as a nation. One of these conflicts include the Vietnam War, taking place from 1954 through till 1975 with the North seizing control of the Southern Vietnamese capital of Saigon. ("Vietnam War History.") While at its peak over half a million US soldiers were stationed on the Vietnam soil,…

In Iraq, the lifestyle there is much worse for Muslim women than it is in the United States. It is common for women to be a victim of abuse, killed, or even raped. In the United States women are given more benefits than Muslim women do in Iraq, which doesn’t seem fair, because women should be treated just as equally as men are treated and no gender is superior than other gender. Iraq’s major religion is Islam, their religion compares and contrasts to Christianity, however the life Muslim women…

Regime change highlights the negative, primal desires of the human conscious. Greed and apprehension are the driving factors behind today’s global instability. Economically, the US intervened in foreign land for the same reasons other global powers did throughout the course of human history. The target country has resources that the intervening country wants. Business interests and potential for profit were driving forces behind invasion. Moreover, the fear that communism would spread throughout…

policies. Western media focused on positive effects of the war claiming it was a ‘war of liberation’ and expressing their concerns over the oppressive regime of Saddam Hussain. Shaping the public’s perception of the war…