Iraq Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

United States of America went into a war against Iraq early in the 21st century. It was with the claims of possible possession of chemical weapons by the Saddam Hussein regime. The actual facts never came forth.

However, this war proved to be one of the most expensive affairs United States of America had to confront. The causalities are too much more than those that were suffered in the Vietnam War. The killing of Iraqis on a daily basis is a normal event of the Iraqi society, and this can be owed to the overall miss adventure of United States of ...

Different cultural population that includes Muslims, Christians and the Jews inhabited the Palestinians land. Muslims were approximately 86%; Christians were 10% and Jews were 4% in the population. These communities had lived in peace for a long period until the rise of Zionism. In 1800s, a European group decided to colonize this land with the objective of creating a Jewish community. Increased Jewish migration from Europe to the Palestinian land increased when Hitler rose into power. Zionist increased migration to Palestine raised alarm to the indigenous population of Palestinians an event that led to conflict and genesis of war between the Jews ...

In political science, there are three levels of analysis, individual level, which is people make policy, state level is where the state makes policy and the system level which is the international arena where behaviors are encouraged or discouraged (Dooley & Patten 337). The three systems can be applied to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was believed then that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were a threat to the peace o the United States and the world because it was alleged to support Al-Qaida and the 9/11 attacks.
When the system level of analysis is put into perspective ...

The Iraq War lasted officially from 2003 up to 2010 and it is one of the most controversial issues in the local and global political agendas. Various assessments by authoritative scholars on this war have varied in their results since they vary from the top most degree of appraisal to the highest levels of condemnations. In general, it is very difficult to assess accurately the internal situation in Iraq since there are many unexpectedness and ambiguity. In addition, Iraq can either fail or succeed. The Iraq invasion in 2003 (20 March to 1 May 2003) was the beginning of ...

The US has for long been the leading super power, a lot of financial resources in the US budget are used in the security sector and. There are many security threats that the world is exposed to, and the US is in the frontline of ensuring that the world is safer. However, there have been mixed reactions from different sources concerning how the US carries out its security operations. It has launched attacks in other nations such as Iraq; the reason given for these attacks is that the US is protecting its people from external threats. Many nations are against ...

What justification did Iraq give for its invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990?

For seven months Saddam occupied Kuwait thus resulting in the first Gulf War as US led forces worked to push the Iraqi military out of Kuwait. Many people have given different reasons as to why Saddam invaded Kuwait but it is believed that he wanted to set Iraq free from the ‘gratuitous debt’ he assumed they had accrued during the Iran – Iraq war, to reconcile the theft of their oil by ‘slant drilling’ from Kuwait and to proclaim as theirs the land he believed to rightfully belong to Iraq. Amidst all the reasons that may have led to the ...

Racism is essentially pronounced in the twentieth century, assuming a strategic position in both political and administration policies. Earlier scholars such us John Locke popularized the belief in equality of humanity by describing the background of human societies, the state and morality. Particularly, the scholar introduced the idea of a “state of nature’’ asserting that men are equally free. However, this state is no longer identifiable in the contemporary society that is highly informed by biased racial assumptions. Charles Mills developed the concept of “racial contract” that describes the state of affairs in the contemporary society. The scholar challenges the existence ...

OPEC or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization between oil producing nations across the globe. The organization was founded during the Baghdad conference during September 10 – 14 1960 by the founding member countries Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Subsequent countries were added to the OPEC in the following order: 1) Qatar (1961), 2) Indonesia (1962 - 2009), 3) Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1962), 4) United Arab Emirates (1967), 5) Algeria (1969), 6) Nigeria (1971), 7) Ecuador (1973 – 1992, 2007 – till date), 8) Angola (2007), and 9) Gabon (1975–1994).

OPEC – Past, Present, Future

The OPEC ...

How have leaders gained the consent of their peoples to wage wars?

Leaders have adopted several tactics and strategies in order to gain the favor of their people into an expeditious war. Beginning from the firs world are, through the second, the Vietnam wars and the War in Iraq, leaders have instigated critical lenses and justifiable course of action to engage in such wars.
Considering World War II, Hitler adopted a nationalistic ideology in order to influence the consent of its people. Hitler’s assertion was spearheaded by a stronger message that Germany should return back its lost glory during the First World War. Adolf Hitler formed Nazi Party, whose main ...

Question 1.

The terms used to describe Civil War veterans who suffered psychological issues after the war were hysteria, melancholia and insanity
Question 2.
The term used to describe World War I veterans who suffered psychological issues after the war were shellshock.
Question 3.
The term used to describe World War II veterans who suffered psychological issues after the war were combat fatigue or combat exhaustion.

Question 4.

The term used to describe Vietnam and Gulf War veterans who suffered psychological issues after the war was PTSD.
Question 5.
Soldiers mostly suffer from hatred for themselves and their actions, inability to re-assimilate to ...

Establishing the national homeland security initiative right remains the most challenging task in the Turkey owing to the concerns in protecting the homeland are based on pervasive competency, over-centralization, entrenched politics, and corruption that frequently make Washington not to discharge their duties appropriately. Given numerous terrorist and criminal activities being witnessed in Turkey’s neighboring countries, like Iraq and Syria, which are believed to make nuclear weapons, there is an urgent need to strengthen Turkey’s Homeland security. The recommendations indicated in this article are vital steps in setting up the suited kind of homeland security for Turkey. The ...

- What was the hijrah (emirgration/migration) that Muhammad and his followers made, and why was this such an important event in Muslim history?
The “Hijrah” – is the Prophet Muhammad's and his supporters` flight from Mecca to Medina, where the first Muslim community was founded in 622 AD. Basically, “hijrah” in Arabic language has got a meaning of relocation from one place to another. As a religious term, the word "hijra" is used in cases of relocation of believers who are oppressed in their homeland and deprived of freedom of religion, to other regions where there are more favorable conditions for ...

War and militarism have existed for centuries now as means of protection against external invasion or attack or to settle international scores and aggressions. However, war should always be used as a last resort as a means of solving differences among countries. Using the conflict and order theories, the role of ordinary citizens and governments in reducing militarism and wars can be analyzed.
Based on the order and governments can work together to reduce the impacts and incidences of war by creating a society with minimal or no inequalities that are likely to create chaos and civil strife that ...

Middle East has been on the boil in the recent past due to the rise of ISIS brand of Islamic fundamentalism and the demand for democracy and human rights by people in many Arab countries. The role of America in shaping the Middle East policy has been profound since the decline of UK as the world’s superpower. Being one of the major suppliers of oil and gas to America, Middle East is a place of strategic importance for USA and other western countries. American indirectly controls the Middle East politics by maintaining close ties with the local regimes and ...

Book review

The Middle East and the United States: History, Politics, and Ideologies is a 560 page book that has a collection of articles written by a carefully selected group of US, European and Middle East diplomats and scholars. Its entire work was edited by two distinguished historians: Professor David W. Lesch, senior Middle East lecturer, Trinity University together with Mark L. Haas, a distinguished political scientist at the University of Duquesne. These are authorities in this area. Besides this book, they are accredited for making other publications like the 1979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East and The Ideological Origins of Great ...

1) Similarities and Differences between the Bush and Obama Doctrines
When Barack Obama took office in 2009, he decided to make substantial changes to national security strategy and policy that were present under Bush’s reign, while still remaining true to many of the core principles, in order to avoid alienating those who had already committed to the previous administration’s strategies.
According to both Bush and Obama, there are many threats to American prosperity and security still present in the world. First and foremost is the continued interference and resistance from terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida ...

Question 1
In the mid 19th century, after the Second World War, Jews in the Arab countries faced the gravest ever case of human rights violation. The Arab regimes in the Middle East and northern part of Africa forced Jews to leave their homes or be held like political hostages. The Arabs came up with official statements that completely subordinated the Jews and threatened their civil, political, economic, and human rights. These actions contradicted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Part II and Article2.1 of the covenant states that “each state party to the present ...

Eric Shinseki with the proposal:

How to low costs in the veteran apartment

INTRODUCTION

PROBLEMS:
AMERICAN HEATH CARE SYSTEM
VA ISSUES
COSTS
CONCLUSION
It is well known that the U.S. has the most extensive help system for veterans in the world. This system exists from 1636th, when the Pilgrims Plymouth Colony was at war with the Indians Pekuot. Then was the first time when was mentioned that a soldier who is injured must receive help from the colony. 1776th, on the Continental Congress was the first time when was mentioned pension for the injury military. Nowadays, MDC is available to all ...

Abstract

Grouping of populations and cultures can be extremely helpful in studying how people behave, react, and basically in everything related to sociology and psychology. The sociocultural classification pioneered by Geert Hofstede has been a very useful tool for researchers, students, and basically everyone who want to learn more about the sociocultural aspect of a certain country. However, there is this one issue about the way how the countries are grouped, particularly the Arab countries Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. These are individual countries grouped as the Arab Word. The paper delves into the validity of this decision by reviewing ...

Critical Thinking –Argument Support Mechanics

When a certain argument is false, an individual is supposed to be cautious in his opinions. However, the logical validity of an argument is its internal consistency and not the truth value. For instance, when an individual argues that there is a wet wall in the street, but nobody has seen the rain. The argument of this statement is correct since the opinion must accept the argument’s premises truth. Thus, it is extremely hard to refute an argument based on false premise since its truth cannot satisfy all the involved parties. The conclusion of an invalid argument should be firm ...

Understanding Monopolies: News Corp

Introduction
News Corporation is a media conglomerate of media publishing houses, including the publication of newspapers, magazines and books, the production and distribution of promotional and advertising products and the development of digital publishing. The Corporation has a number of business interests, including a few major sports teams. The history, relevance and analysis of News Corp would invariably revolve around its iconic and often controversial owner, Australian-born Rupert Murdoch (Corporate Watch).

History

News Corporation was originally created from the wealth Rupert Murdoch received from his father. He obtained his first newspaper, ‘The Adelaide News.’ by inheritance on the death of his father ...

The history about Islam has always been linked to the Islamic empire’s existence. From the beginning, Islam existed and spread in the form of a community whereby Islam was both a cult and a political order (Courbage et al. 344). Egypt, Persia and Levant were all involved in the transformation of Islam to the present state it is in today by the power of the Arabs. There have been differing views on how to deal with the history of Islam even though there are evident sources of how and why Islam was transformed from a cult to an acceptable religion. This critical ...

Huxley describes a utopian society that has a high consumption of a drug referred to as soma. He describes soma as having ‘all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol’ and a ‘perfect drug’ which is relaxing, surreal and whose effects last for ten hours (Huxley 32). Any feeling that is not appealing is generally repressed by the soma drug which ensures that people are not able to effectively address the cause of their challenges. Huxley tries to enlighten readers through the soma drug the way people try to deal with their frustrations in their day-to-day personal experiences.
The text is informative with ...

After the ending most widespread war in the history of mankind - the Second World War, the world entered into the New World Order. With the last shot of this war the European colonial period ended, and began new era –era of the two rival superpowers. Almost immediately after the ending of the war “Iron Curtain” has crossed the continent but not only the continent across the entire world. So let’s analyze to what consequences WWII led and how it impact on positions of all major players in the world. The first major consequence of the Second World ...

Introduction

Australia is a nation that is well known to have people of different ethnic backgrounds due to immigrations from various countries and international students. When a country or community has people of different ethnicity there are bound to have their own traditions and customs thus will bring about culture shock when interacting with one another. Australia has been faced with a lot of racial discrimination claims from the beginning when the white settlers entered the country. The original occupants of Australia were the aborigines and the Torres Strait Islander. It is a well known fact that Australia is known for their harsh and ...

Arguably, sustainability is one important factor in every society. For so many decades, Middle East and North Africa has been facing imbalance of sustainability. In fact, the issue of water, climate change as well as population pressure are the most determinants and cause of imbalance sustainability in the region. Its impacts in the Middle East and North Africa are felt in all sectors of human life, which include social, economic, as well as political. Perhaps, the history and culture of this is somehow different a compared to other parts of Africa and Europe. North Africa and Middle East are in ...

In an election, the most important thing is not who wins the election but why people voted the way they did. As candidates campaign, they must fully understand the electoral behavior in order to influence their selection. This paper highlights the basic ideas and concepts that are believed to influence voting behavior. It identifies the sources of voting behavior of an individual and attempts to explain why voters vote for a given candidate. It also highlights the impacts of voter turnout in the election process.
A voter may decide to choose a candidate depending on several factors. The major considerations ...

1. The main components of food crises equation are levels of consumption, technological development and social inequality. The first component is conditioned by human lifestyles, social structure and income level. In this context, the disparity between developed countries were people not just eat more, but their income and level of life comfort gives them an opportunity to eat more meat and high-caloric food, is meant; while people from developing countries have a vegetarian and low-protein diet. Subsequently, the needed action concerning this component is stabilizing the parity of consumption, discouraging population of developed countries from eating too much meat. Technological ...

Chapter 3

Post 1 – Professor Franck’s brings up an interesting question, why states obey international law despite the undeveloped condition of the international system? I would say a very important reason is that criminals, even those who have been nation-state leaders have been brought to trial on the international stage at The Hague. So all the characteristics he mentions that give legitimacy – transparency, symbolic validation, adherence and coherence – are met by the World Court and can be observed on the television news all over the world. There exist inconsistencies in terms of which leaders are taken to trial when others have ...

The Qualities of the Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Qualities of the Prince (1513) carries political advice that many political analyst of today would find as practical as it sounds out fashioned. His instructions to the prince or ruler include the employment of controversial/unorthodox methods to maintain power and keep order. Machiavelli claims to base his rhetoric on “what is done as opposed to what ought to be done.” This paper considers Machiavelli’s rhetoric as presented in his work, “The Qualities of the Prince” and assesses the validity of his advice in the political scenario today.

The Role of the Prince in Military Matters

Machiavelli advises that a prince should take nothing ...