Uday Hussein

The United States involvement in other countries has come at a great price. We have lost thousands of men and women in a war that is not ours. Social, political and economic issues have been a common thing for the Middle East as any place in the word. Would the intervention of the United States help resolve any of these issues in the Middle East? Should the U. S. be involved at all? Many argue that this war has led the U.S. into a deep financial debt. According to the…

involvement in the region. Ricks’s writings are filled with the incompetence of the Bush administrations urgency to go to war with Iraq. Claiming that the war began over a small source of international support and wrongful information about how Saddam Hussein and the terrorist group al Qaeda where somehow linked, with no information on weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Decisions made by the Bush Administration, the Pentagon, the U.S. Central Command and American Military involved in the war,…

issue that the Arab countries and the west had different actions toward it , and that had a great political, martial, and environmental effects on them. The Iraq invasion toward Kuwait was initiated by repeated threats and claims from Saddam Hussein the Iraqi president towards Kuwait , that their ruler was sheikh Jaber Al - Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-subah during the invasion ,is a part of Iraq and he will take over this part someday , although of these previous claims no one believed that Iraq…

Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu literature who has produced twenty two collections of short stories dealing with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the theme of…

Democratic Peace Theory In order to critically evaluate the concept of the democratic peace theory, one must highlight the key aspects of what it means to be a democracy and emphasize the controversies caused by various arguments associated with the history of liberalism. The theory, based on assumptions made by notable scholars, proposes the idea that democratic states naturally abstain from engaging in armed conflict with other equally democratic states. Immanuel Kant’s ‘Perpetual Peace’…

In the essay “The Enemies of Empire,” the author discusses an argument that develops between two different perspectives on imperialism and anti- imperialism after the Spanish- American War. He mentions that many Americans supported the idea of expansionism while others opposed it. He asserts that the people who supported the idea of imperialism believed that it was an American duty to intervene in other countries affairs in order to liberate the oppressed. Conversely, he states that other people…

After the death of Saddam Hussein, many of his supporters didn’t know what to do next, so they formed a group called Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda waged war and attacked Shiite militias who were supported by Iran. After the invasion of US troops, the group seemed to be kept at bay for a while until they regrouped in Syria. Here, they renamed themselves ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. According to The Week the rest of Al Qaeda wasn’t happy with the regrouping because they were forming a new group…

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…

In displaying a polemical view of American air strikes on the Al Jazeera office in Baghdad, it has refuted the perception of the American military as “good-doers” against the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, an “evil” dictator. Furthermore, by documenting the perception of the American intervention through the lens of Iraqi people and other Arab Nations, the film challenged the narrative that Americans have served as liberators. The film has also shown…

In an Essay written by William T. Cavanaugh, he realized that many scholars were unable to define and distinguish religion from secular nations. He questioned why religion had only recently been separated from political institutions, by providing the example of the Aztec religion. He stated “Is Aztec ‘politics’ to blame for their bloody human sacrifices, or is Aztec ‘religion’ to blame?” He suggests that although many argue that Religion plays a major factor in the cause of conflicts shouldn’t…