Essays on Iraq

Introduction

“Billions over Baghdad” is an investigation report, prepared by Vanity Fair contributing editors Donald Barlett and James Steele, published in the October 2007 edition of the magazine. The report exposes how those billions of dollars that flew from Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the War Land of Iraq in the name of financial assistance and human aid, get disappeared as if these haven’t even exist. The incompetence of US officials overseeing the entire matter, the mismanaged transfer to the local bodies and the corrupt and greedy contractors and ghost employees made the entire game possible. It ...

This essay addresses the following historical question: Is it possible for states to have a foreign policy with an ethical dimension? First of all, it is important to note that the nation-state at the international level is the most important entity. Each nation-state is most concerned with gunning as much power from the international system. Therefore, from a realist perspective security is the most important objective of each nation-state. The second important driving force of states within the international system is relative gain in terms of economics, politics, and social values in comparison with other players within the international ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed in April 4, 1949. NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance, which has its headquarters at Brussels, Belgium, and it is based on the North Atlantic treaty or agreement. The organization has a collective defense system where member countries mutually agree on the defense mechanism in response to the external attacks (Andreas et al 76) The presence of NATO in Afghanistan has been beneficial to the Middle East though some people argue that it has increased conflicts and misunderstanding than before. The NATO ongoing operation in Afghanistan and Iraq has enhanced strategic ...

The United States military expeditions in Iraq began in high gear. The military operations quickly brought down Sadam Hussein’s reign. un- able to counter the power of the, United States of America combatants the Iraq soldiers resorted to, counterrisurgency operations, often staged on complex urban terrain. The change in venue and operational tempo left U.s Troops, in their lightly armored vehicles exposed to road side attacks from improvised explosive devices. Michael J. Sullivan (2009:56-67) The American Department of Defense responded, with a $25 billion dollar plan, to ...

Intelligence Failure: The Iraq War

Introduction Failure in a country’s Intelligence system often leads to devastating outcomes. The Americans and the British experienced Intelligence failure concerning the issue of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). This failure came up in diverse forms that would have made it difficult to realize that there was a problem within the Intelligence system. Even so, several lessons were learnt from the intelligence failure thus prompting the US government to make certain changes that would be beneficial to the country in the long run.

According to Mockaitis (2012), the intelligence shortcomings mainly arose from the fact that ...

War in Iraq, is one of the controversial events in history of American wars. It takes two to tango, and this is the case of the war in Iraq. For a war to start there should be some driving forces or effects. The justification for the Iraq invasion remains quite unclear despite the prior consequences that came with the war. The invasion was suggested to have begun following the 9/11 attack of World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001. Americans attacked Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam’s dictatorship, and seven years later the war came to end (Mahnken ...

Numerous theoretical perspectives try to explain the state of Iraqi before and after the United States invasion in 2003. Most importantly, the western assumptions are biased towards the leadership and governance of Iraqi. As a result, the theories have created mixed symptoms and the causes of ethnic conflicts and sectarianism does not have evidence to approve the underlying assumptions. In my opinion, I argue that, the assumptions and biases of the western have played a large role to convince the society that Iraqi government is responsible for the suffering of its citizens. The United States of America have itself ...

(Course/Major)

On the 15th of December 2011, American troops lowered the US flag from their base in Baghdad, signaling the end of the American military and peacekeeping mission in Iraq. After a year short of a decade of military missions in the country, the dismantling of the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as well as the explosion of sectarian violence and civil disturbances, the situation was further aggravated by the continuing involvement of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. In this light, the official departure of American troops from Iraq, and the cessation of active US participation in keeping the ...

U.S. Intelligence U.S. Intelligence In the past years, the main test of the quality of U.S. intelligence community was their capacity to gauge the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union and the terrorists. However, so far the overall performance of U.S. intelligence has not done well at detecting Soviet military forces other than those positioned for a nuclear strike against the United States (Greenberg and Haass, 1996). They have failed mostly in forecasting accurately what the Soviet government and terrorist intends to do in the future. This is so because the minority in the intelligence community tends to ...

Providing access to clean water is the major priority for UNICEF. The UNICEF Tap Project is currently a unique international campaign, which provides access to clean water and sanitation to children nationwide. Its work is very efficient: merely with $5, UNICEF is able to provide 200-day water for a single child. Thanks to UNICEF, since 1990 more than 2.1 billion now have access to clean water. In 2007 only the ad campaign of tap project was carried out in New York State. The campaign gave incentives to diners of more than 300 restaurants to donate $1. The dollar was ...

Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) In Iraq-Afghanistan Wars

Abstract Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are homemade bombs that are constructed and deployed in certain ways. Since October 2001, IEDs have been responsible for over 3000 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. These devises are designed to specifically kill, harass, or injure people or groups of people. In Iraq and Afghanistan, IEDs have been widely used. They are hidden behind guardrails and signs, inside animal carcasses, and under roadside debris, these encounters are very dangerous as they are causing thousands of death in Iraq and Afghanistan annually (Tanielian, 2008, p. 11). This strategy has taken a different direction where ...

In March 20th, 2003, America started on of the longest wars in the world. The American forces invaded Iraq without warning and triggered the beginning of the war. There were claims by the United Kingdom and the United States of America that, Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WPM) and thus was a threat to their security and to the coalitions in the region (Blair, 2002). The United Nations monitoring, verification and inspection commission (UNMOVIC) had conducted a thorough search and verification in Iraq prior to the attack to ascertain this claim. They found no evidence ...

- What causes climate change? Define the Greenhouse Effect

Greenhouse gases (GHG) allow sunlight to enter the atmosphere and absorbs the heat produced by that light. Most of this heat energy is trapped within the atmosphere by the GHG while some of them are let out into the space. The phenomenon of atmospheric heating due to the GHG is called as the greenhouse effect. Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases form the greenhouse gases. Burning of fossil fuels, manufacturing processes, decay of organic matter, agricultural industries and emission of synthetic fluorinated gases from various industrial ...

- About twelve years ago, four U.S commercial airliners were hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists and flown into the Pentagon, a Pennsylvanian field and the World Trade Towers. - Following this attack, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched on Oct. 7, 2001 by the US against the al Qaeda forces in an effort to dislocate and eliminate their safe haven. - 54,000 American troops are still in Afghanistan. - This Afghanistan War is thus far the longest, multi-divisional war ever fought in the history of America. - Over 2,700 troops from the US and troops from at least ...

After the world war period, the United States America became the super power making it a key player in the international relations and the world police. This paper seeks to establish some incidences that have occurred portraying America as the world police and the impacts it has made in such regions/incidences. Prior to 2003, Iraq was perceived by both United States of America and United Kingdom to be in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Due to the threat these weapons had on international scale, America and U.K had to act to stop the manufacturing of weapons of mass ...

A lot of myths describe judgment, and the good and evil. These apocalyptic tales harbor on morality tales as one sees them describing how one is right and good and will deservingly go to paradise, while those who are not righteous will suffer or be punished in hell. The Myths described in Parallel Myths by J.F. Bierlein border on morality in a big way and in doing so, present some extremely frightening possibilities. Maybe not violent in the sense like widespread bloodshed, but definitely something that is disastrous. Myths perhaps have a purpose in that they shape a person’ ...

Immediately after the September 11th attacks on the United States Soil, the U. S government responded by going to Iraq and taking the war to the terrorists. The U. S troops set foot in Iraq in the year 2012. The Abu Ghraib prison camp was established in the year 2003 in the province of Abu Ghraib. This detention camp was used to hold Iraqi civilians who were captured during the war hence, sort of a prison. The detention camp was situated 28miles west of Baghdad which was the capital city of Iraq. It was located on a 280 acres ...

Many years after President George W. Bush declared that U.S. achieved its military goals in Iraq, the U.S. military stationed in Iraq still faces one of the worst forms of insurgency. The situation is not any better in Afghanistan where U.S. forces have been maintaining law and order for more than a decade. The unconventional and irregular warfare fought in both countries presented significant challenges that promoted war planners to rethink their strategy. Historical lessons learned from the French-Algerian War (1954-1962) as well as the American experience in Vietnam proved to be useful in developing a plan for adapting ...

Executive summary

Headquartered in Calgary, Canada Talisman Energy develops, produces and markets petroleum and natural gas globally. Being one Canada largest independent oil and gas company, its existence commenced in 1992 after British Petroleum (now BP) sold its subsidiary in Canada. Talisman Energy primary regions of operation were mainly in North America, North Sea, and South East Asia. The company achieved a phenomenal growth rate due to several key mergers and acquisitions that are apparent in its large and diverse number of holdings. In 2008, Talisman Energy listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). ...

The oud is an object of fascination and wonder for the audience and one of desire and passion for the musician and artist. The instrument is ancient, always undergoing transition and has the potential to transcend political and spatial boundaries in the modern world. It is representative of the rich and diverse cultures that have shaped its modern forms and variations. The instrument is now being understood more in western countries and its influence on western music and musical instruments is undeniable. This paper will discuss the history of the instrument within the evolution of string instruments. It will ...

Introduction

According to Green of 2014, terrorism involves the use of violence as well as threats to achieve political, economic and most cases religious cases (Green 1). A terrorist is an individual who executes the act of violence or intimidation for a determined objective. Terrorists operate in groups that range from few members to larger masses of persons operating in the region and, or globally. There are a number of terror groups ever to be known in the world history such as the Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban and the Al-Shabaab (Ortiz 1). The groups are identical in a number of aspects ...

Introduction

The Iraq war is one of most significant events of recent times. War on Iraq was imposed on Iraq by United States of America and its allies. The war was started on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein’s involvement in terrorist activities against America. America and allied forces alleged that Iraq is a treat to America and world because of its involvement in making weapons of mass destruction. This paper aims to propose a discussion on war on Iraq and presents a firsthand account of the war on Iraq.

Background

The attack of 9/11 raised ...

1) Causes of the Gulf War date back almost a decade before the very Gulf War began. It was namely in the 1980s that the basis of the conflict originated. An array of political, economic and strategic interests of a number of states (both Gulf ones, like Iraq, Iran and Kuwait and non-Gulf ones, like those, who participated in the UN mission) intertwined in the region which led to the outburst of the developments as we know them. Chronologically one of the first reasons were political developments during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). The thing is that Kuwait accorded a ...

The rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against Iraqi forces represents yet another critical milestone in Iraq’s turbulent recent history. The policy options available to the United States are complicated by the regional dimensions of the conflict and the divergent interests of key players, most notably Iran, Syria, Russia, a loose coalistion of Western countries and Sunni-regimes in the region. While most of the policy options may be framed as a search for the “least bad” policy to address this quagmire, there may be a path worth exploring to transform the situation ...

The demonetized biased supportive nature of Gulf War is often seen in books and interviews with scholars published internationally. However, the debate demands an unbiased background that gives a person living in 21st century the eyes to understand the before and after of the Gulf War era. The chain of essential events is long and begins from the very start of 20th century but it is better to start with the political relations between the two main stakeholders, U.S and Iraq. The United States of America knew about the strength of the relationship between Iraq and Soviet Union in ...

Introduction

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi statesman and politician, president of Iraq (1979-2003), Prime Minister of Iraq (1979-1991 and 1994-2003), secretary-general of the Iraqi branch of the Baath Party, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Marshal (1979). In 1980, he began a ruinous war with Iran, which lasted until 1988. During the war, Hussein's government implemented "Operation Anfal" against the Kurds, during which Iraqi forces used chemical weapons. In 1990, at the initiative of Hussein was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, to provoke a large-scale war in the Persian Gulf, in which Iraqi troops were driven out of Kuwait, and the ...

Mohammed introduced Islam, or submission to God, to the people of Mecca in 610 (Ro). The religion combined some Jewish and Christian traditions and later on included set of laws influencing most aspects of life. The religion proved to be influential and an empire that included Central Asia and Spain was established. However, his death 1400 years ago caused a divide amongst the Muslims. Debates about who will succeed Mohammed ensued, with some saying that a qualified member should be the next successor, while the others insisting that the next ruler should come from Mohammed’s bloodline. In the ...

Introduction

The potential that the government of Bush could have ousted Saddam Hussein from power is worrying among the minds of many. This would have created several kinds of images in the minds of the American allies as well as opposes. There now exist myths that explain an invasion into Iraq to overthrow the government. The fact that there was rich oil deposits in Iraq, seems like being the cause of the invasion and in the eyes of the public, America only looks like it was after its own selfish agenda. This caused criticisms across the divide. However, in its ...

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 ...

Al-Qaeda is a militant organization that was founded around 1986-1988 by Osama Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and other militants. The organization was said to be borne out of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It has been classified as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council and the NATO, among other groups. The group’s strategies involve mainly suicide attacks and bombings of various targets. Al Qaeda in Iraq. According to the website of Vox, what is known today as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is what used to be Al-Qaeda in Iraq. During the ...

Osama bin laden set the Islam militant group, Al-Qaeda. Established around 1988 to 1989, it aimed at fighting for the Muslim community during the soviet war of the Middle East. United Nations, NATO and other movements concerned with world peace, declared al-Qaeda a terrorism group. Amongst other demoralizing terrorism activities, they mercilessly brought down the American Twin towers, killing and injuring a substantial count of innocent people. Al-Qaeda carries out its activities in Iraq Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In Iraq, followers of Al-Qaeda identify themselves with the title Mesopotamian Jihadists. Before terrorism, they helped Iraq in the establishment. ...

Al-Qaeda is an Islamist organization composed of radicalized Islam followers who engage in terrorist activities; the group adheres to the Sunni Islam. Osama bin Laden founded and headed the international terror group. The group has firm origins in the Middle East countries with links and allies in almost all other nations of the world. The group mainly targets Americans and their allies. It also attacks people from different faiths, other than Islam. Al-Qaeda has roots in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saud Arabia and Yemen. Al-Qaeda in Iraq came under much scrutiny and publication during the tenure of President Saddam Hussein. The ...

The main objective of this paper is to answer two separate questions: What are the roles played by media in conflict resolution or exacerbating conflicts across the globe? And how the influences of the media did contributed or exacerbate the war on Iraq and ethnic violence in Kenya that took place in the year 2007 after the election. Considering researches conducted concerning the media and conflict resolution, media and peace and media a tool of information that is also presumed to be the source of power, it is possible to justify the fact that media is the most significant ...

Collage

Abstract This paper clearly discusses the reasons why there is still war in Iraq. Over the past 20 years, war has been a major issue in Iraq. The western states such as the United States have spent most of their time in the Middle East countries such as Iraq as a result of the war. Since the 9/11 tragedy in the United States of America, Iraq has been a major target by America in collaboration with other states in Europe. The major idea was to look for terrorists that have been a key threat to the world. However, conspiracy ...

‘Time Stands Still’ was written by Donald Margulies, the Pulitzer Prize winner and directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, the Tony Award winner. This outstanding play, premiered in Los Angeles in 2009, was also nominated for 2 Tony Awards. In the beginning of 2011, this production was closed. There are two main characters in this four-character play: James Dodd, a reporter, and his girlfriend Sarah, a photojournalist (Isherwood, 2010). When performed in 2010 on Broadway, ‘Time Stands Still’ starred Brian d’Arcy James (initially this play starred David Harbour) as James Todd and Laura Linney as Sarah. Laura Linney was ...

Modern day Iraq is home to some of the largest oil deposits in the world. This fact has prompted many western nations to develop an interest in it and exploit these oil deposits. It happens that the economy of this country solely depends on its oil deposits. After the Second World War the Iraq Petroleum Company was dominated by the British up until 1958. And in 1972 the oil was nationalized something that sparked the interests of other nations like France and the Soviet Union. The US also had its interests and some of the greatest businessmen like J. ...

Media policy is often described to be the effort of the government to feed people of propaganda and information about what the government wants them to believe. There are various ways to do so, and this paper will look at some of the ways the government of two different countries try to provide information and change the perception of their citizens. This paper will look at two countries with a common issue but a completely different solution to tackle the issue. One of the main headlines, found these days in the media channels in the USA, is related to ...

Iraq

Introduction Iraq is a country that is located in Western Asia. According to the website of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Its official name is the Republic of Iraq. It is surrounded by the countries of Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Its capital is Baghdad, which is also its largest city (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014). According to the website of the White House, the country, however, enjoys a narrow coastline of length on the northern section of the Persian Gulf, which is adjacent to the Mesopotamian Alluvial Plain, otherwise known as the Tigris-Euphrates River System, the home of the ...

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 ...

Persian Gulf War

The Arab Gulf Region has been through two historically devastating wars: one was the prolonged conflict in 1980s between Iran and Iraq, and the other that followed was the war that started when the President of Iraq took the world by surprise and ordered the invasion of Kuwait. More than twenty years have passed since the official proclamation of the end of the Gulf War, but some would say that war continues to affect us every day. Nora Eisenberg recounted what the Executive Director of Gulf War veterans said, that the war not only lingers in the body of ...

Introduction

The Kuwaiti war was a result of ongoing economic warfare and allegations with a predetermined Iraqi Invasion since Iraq was unable to pay back the debt it had gained from Kuwait in order to finance its war against Iran. This led to a change in the Kuwaiti policy once the war was over in comparison to the policies that Kuwait held before the war.

Life in Kuwait before and after the war

Life in Kuwait was very pleasant as well as economically beneficial for the country before the Iraqi invasion and this is because Kuwait enjoyed mass production of oil barrels on a daily basis. The infrastructure ...

HIROSHIMA AND THE ISIS

The Horrors of War: Hiroshima and the ISIS Hiroshima The Eyewitness Account of Fr. John A. Siemes

Events and damage

The day, August 6, 1945, started like any other sunny and pleasant. At about 8:15 in the morning, however, things changed. The atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. Nobody knew that what kind of bomb it was. Given the intensity of the damage and explosion, the residents of the novitiate, which was about two kilometers away from the city proper, thought that a bomb exploded only nearby. After the explosion, Fr. Siemes and his companions went out to check and saw the ...

Introduction

There are many instances in the modern world when a certain issue emerges and captures the attention of various stakeholders. These stakeholders include scholars of different subjects as well the media. The issue of interest is approached from all angles by these stakeholders and is exposed to extremely dissection as attempts are made to establish its core. The invasion of Iraq by the United States drew a lot of public interest but in recent years, one implication of this war has once again elevated public interest. There have reports of increased birth defects in the Iraqi regions subjected to ...

Media and Weapons of Mass Deception

Media are the main source of information around the world. It comes in many forms like newspaper, magazines, televisions, radios, among others. “Weapons of Mass Deception” is a derogatory phrase used by a few people to depict the United States President George W. Bush's claims for Saddam Hussein. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein owned weapons of mass destruction as rationalization for the war on Iraq. In a broader sense, the goals of different factors like, terrorist groups, politicians, military, etc. get linked together with an increase in media coverage of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Media have been ...

Introduction

Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) was previously a part of the Jihadi group, Al-Qaeda, working under the name of Al-Qaeda. But soon after several internal conflicts and issues, the Syrian hub of Al-Qaeda cut off their roots with them and renamed them as ISIS (Al-tamimi, 2014). They announced their formation officially in April 2013. From then, it has emerged as the main jihadist group which is launching highly active operations and fighting the government of Iraq and Syria as well. The territory of ISIS covers the land area of thirty-five thousand square miles. This size of land ...

On Thursday, June 2014 President Barack Obama issued a statement that he would send 300 military advisers to Iraq to assist the embattled government from the advancing Sunni militia from the northern part of the country. According to the president, the move will avoid the country from having a civil war and ensuring stability in the region. The militias have a haven in northern Iraq have the capacity of launching attacks since they are some of America’s enemies. Similarly, Obama is planning to withdraw all the forces that have been in Middle East fro close to eight years. ...

Introduction

President Obama's announcement on military action in Iraq raised controversy and criticism over its validity and legal issues. The idea to deploy American troops (300 military advisors) whose intention is to help the Iraqi forces to maintain control over the rebel Islamic militants is considered by the Congress, as unconstitutional. The statement revealed that he planned on consulting the Congress and Iraq leaders for the appropriate course of action when a situation is considered delicate. He mentioned in his speech that the U.S is ready to take targeted military action to combat rebel militants in Iraq after consultations with ...

Rising Oil Prices Could Derail India's Economic Comeback

India’s struggle of economic comeback seems to be hit hard through the ongoing Iraq crisis that has led to the consistent rise in the prices of crude oil at the international level. Important to note that the prices of crude oil, which were in the healthy range of $104-$105/barrel has surged to $115/barrel amid Iraq crisis that has hit the global oil supply in the world. However, India, which is the major importer of oil from Iraq seems to be hit hard with multiple effects on its economy and economist are even questioning if the new prime ...

International Conflict Political Science

Introduction There have been a number of issues in the world that has brought about international conflicts for years. It is a fact that every year there are new conflicts that emerge and the old conflicts become worse or improve. There are many countries where people know that no matter what happens conflicts with other countries will continue to persist (Jack & William, 2007). Examples of these countries are Afghanistan, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Nigeria, Sudan, Iraq and Democratic Republic of Congo. Most of the wars have begin as civil wars and ended up being a full blown war between states. ...

The Arab – Israel conflict can be traced back to the creation of the Jewish state in the Middle East region in 1948. This led to rising tensions in the region, and upset the balance of power in the Middle East. The conflict escalated especially after the first Arab- Israel war in 1948 that saw Arab powers led by Egypt and Jordan invade the newly created Jewish state. The powers felt the United Nation partition plan of Palestine in 1947 greatly favored the Jews at the expense of the local Palestine population (Fawcett slide 14 of Fawcet chapter 3). The ...

Kuwait Fire

Kuwait faced a huge challenge in the year 1990 where the worst oil pollution occurred. This incident was brought about by the invasion of Iraqi troops which damaged the environment and the health of human beings. Oil is major contributor in the GDP of Kuwait as it leads to major revenue and employment. The war on between Iraq and Kuwait brought about major effects to the environment and victims (Baase, 2012). It also brought about constraints against the people involved by creating laws and sanctions. It was an incident where seven hundred and eight wells of oil were destroyed ...

The experiences of these Iraq war veterans in terms of the combat they did, injuries that tried to defeat them and their post-war experiences had a great impact towards the peace in Iraq. When Staff Sgt. Gregg Bumgardner was interviewed he stated that his experience in Iraq was one of the most important things that he did in his life. This can be true as he was part of one of the most crucial military operations in history. His experience shaped his behavior in many ways in terms of living his everyday life facing a life-threatening job. Meanwhile, Maj. ...

Just like any other child in the village, I grew up with great element of enthusiasm and optimism to face the future. After school I spent most of time in the playground with other kids because I was the only kid in my family and could not play some childish games with my parents: I needed that child filled environment with the noise and all sorts of games. I was brought up by my two parents who I knew from childhood as daddy and mummy. They were too compassionate and caring and they provided me with every material and ...

Film Studies

The movie, Farenheit 9/11, directed by Michael Moore is a documentary which tries to critically view America’s ‘War on Terror’ when George W. Bush was the president. The movie was released in the year 2011 and mainly investigates the aftermath and the reasons for this terrorist attack. The movie targets the then U.S. President, George W. Bush and the Iraq war. The movie has investigated the manner in which the lives of ordinary American citizens have been impacted as a result of the Iraq war. It investigates the class inequities which always puts pressure to the lower class ...

Introduction

Iraq War is one of modern world’s most long lasting conflicts. Having started in 2003 with the invasion of the U.S. armed forces in Iraq in 2003, aiming at changing existing political regime of Saddam Hussein, and ended only in 2011, the war was concerned with variety of long-term effects-related events for the people of Iraq, namely extremely high costs of the war, severe humanitarian crises and wide range of human rights abuses, being committed by Iraqi government, coalition forces and private contractors, as well as insurgent groups. With these events of war in mind I will be ...

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 ...

Battles of the Ottoman and the Safavid Empires

The Middle East has long been seen as one of the richest regions in the world, not just for its riches, but it was also rich of centuries-old traditions and history that has shaped mankind. The region became known as the epicenter of world trade with the establishment of the Silk Road and sea-lanes connecting Eurasia together. It was also in the Middle East wherein religions and ethnicities were created and diversified, transforming societies and cultures throughout the globe. Many nations have attempted to take this very diverse and rich land, however, the region was only controlled by a ...

Introduction

Media policy is directed at various issues and contexts of the media environment. When developing the media policy, a broad range of theoretical perspectives are considered. This paper aims to analyze media policy from different theoretical perspectives. In this paper, the media policies of the United Kingdom and Iraq will also be analyzed. The important concepts, covered in this essay, include media imperialism, the CNN effects, and the key issues associated with media policy. An important factor, which must be considered when developing media policy, is the presence of several policy areas in the field of communication. These areas ...

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Introduction

During the 1200s, Islam has proven itself as a dominant religion throughout parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, now collectively known as the Middle East. Islam has encountered numerous challenges to its integrity, particularly from the Roman Catholics through the Holy Crusades, which eventually collapsed during the late 1100s through the Islamic liberation of Jerusalem. The Islamic civilization proved groundbreaking not just in religious affairs, but also in terms of establishing intellectual potency and political strength within all influenced territories. The city of Baghdad, now the capital of present-day Iraq, stood as ...