The United States has become the target of the most recent terrorist attacks because of it's political involvement in the middle east. The United States has had involvement in the middle east ever since before the Gulf War which took place in the early 1990's. ... The presence of the United States has been felt in that region of the middle east since the 1980's and has upset certain groups of muslims who do not want them there. The U.S. first became involved in the middle east when it finally recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), an...

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For thousands of years, countries in the Middle East have been engaging in wars. These wars are sparked by things such as ethnicity, religion, ownership of land and even oil production. Over time, these wars have taken their tolls on the economies and political structures of the fighting countries...

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The Middle East country I visited for 7 days was Iraq. Although research and articles did not suggest that Americans go there, I took a plane that landed in Baghdad, which is the capital of Iraq. Once I arrived I took a taxi to a home in the city. I stayed with a family. This was arranged through an...

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Although some American philosophers and higher power men have said that the terrorists responsible for the attacks on 9/11 should be excused because we as a country brought on the attack due to our policies worldwide specifically in the Middle East. ...

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The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks changed everything, including the Bush administration's thinking about the Middle East. Senior officials decided that unless action was taken, the Middle East would continue to be a breeding ground for terrorists. ... But American officials felt a Middle East peace agreement would only be part of the solution. The Bush administration felt that a new start was needed in the Middle East and that Iraq was the place to show that it is democracy, not terrorism, which offers hope. ... "The dangers of our time must be confronted actively and forcefully, before we se...

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This brings the end to a reign of terror and dictatorship in one part of the Middle East. ... There are still many countries in the Middle East that are stuck in the past and are yet to adopt democracy and western ideology. ...

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The issue of this article is that if Iraq and Saddam's regime is not disarmed of their weapons of mass destruction, Saddam will use his cover of his nuclear weapons to try to forcibly unite the Middle East to confront the Western alliance. ... "If not disarmed, Saddam will use the cover of his nuclear weapons to try forcibly unite the Middle East to confront the West-. ... These groups largely view Australia as an important local enemy, both because of it's Western culture and because we have supported regional stability and independence for East Timor-. ... Scare Tactics are use...

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Recently the United States has been in conflict with the Middle East. ... President Bush signed a bill passed by Congress for funds to secure Iraq and rebuild Afghanistan after touting a new policy to spread democracy through the Middle East. ... Possibly if we can control middle eastern situation. ... It would also destabilize the Middle East and will certainly result in the loss of life of American service people as well as Iraqi civilians. ...

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Saudi Arabia is considered to be a middle-eastern country near hotspots such as Iraq and Israel. ... Along with the Arab/Israeli conflict, another conflict that is affecting the middle east also complicates the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States: the (at the time) impending war on Iraq. ...

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The Bush administration felt that a new start was needed in the Middle East and that Iraq was the place to show that it is democracy- not terrorism- that offers hope. ... Waging war with Iraq will help stabilize the Middle East and make it more hospitable to Israel. ... In the heart of the Middle East between Syria and Iran, two countries the U.S. has always wanted to send a message to. ...

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The successful outcome of the Gulf War, combined with the collapse of the Soviet Union, had left the United States in an unprecedented position of dominance in the Middle-East. ... Moreover, the United States was forced to consider that it could not afford the destabilizing impact that pressure for reform would generate in the deeply traditional and repressed societies of the Middle-East. ... (Ajami) For this reason, the al Qaeda network established by Osama bin Laden had one objective; the overthrow of the Saudi and Egyptian regimes, who made allowances for an American presence in the Middle-...

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The Iranian hostage crisis had played a huge part in setting the mood for foreign contact between the United States and many other Middle Eastern nations into the 00s, however there were many other events that shaped U.S. involvement in the Middle East. ... That same year many communist nations in Eastern Europe began to fall and the Berlin wall that divided East and West Germany was torn down. ...

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They heard that there was Kuwaiti gold hidden somewhere in the Middle East. ... Going in to the Gulf War, the Iraqi armies had extensive experience because they had just ended a war with other middle-eastern countries. ...

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There are some excellent hotels and restaurants but the city of Aqaba is Jordan's resort town offering the only diving and snorkeling sites and some swim able beaches Jordan is located in the Middle East and is land locked between Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the West Bank of Israel. The terrain is made up of 80% desert plateau in the south and east. To the west there is the upper highlands and the Great Rift Valley separates the East from the west banks of the Jordan River. ... The ethnic majority is 98% Arab all officially Arabic Speaking with English is widely understood a...

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Leader of the Middle East Khidir Hamza said Saddam Hussein has a long history of involvement in international terrorism, a history that ranges from assassinations of Iraqi's abroad in the 1970s and 1980s to links with Islamic fundamentalists today. ... And finally, with a regime change in Iraq, it will help to build a better Middle East. ...

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It's a fact that since the Gulf war in the early 1990s, over $60,000,000,000 dollars worth of arms and ammunition have been sent by the United States to the Middle-East and central Asia. The USA has maintained their military presence in Asia and the East for decades as if it was their own land to do what they want with. ... So the middle aged female chemist fills her car with intricately homemade explosives and complex bombs and drives to the front of an embassy. ...

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Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East Forum, has suggested that if Saddam Hussein survives the US attack, he might reemerge to lead an underground guerrilla force that fights the US occupation. ... And, she adds, "we are culturally and linguistically deprived" in matters related to the Middle East. ...

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The group RUPE believes that the United States should build a new democratic world order in the Middle Azor 2 East based on principles of equality and social justice because powerful and wealthy nations threaten sustainable world peace. ... Ultimately, The Research Unit for Political Economy also believe that the war will bring democracy to the Middle East. ... The group RUPE describes America's future as: "In the future, inevitably, it will become increasingly dependent on oil from West Asia-North Africa, a region where the masses of ordinary people despise the United States, where thre...

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Persian Gulf War- August 2, 1990 On August 2nd, 1990, Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. The order was given by Iraqi dictatorial president Saddam Hussein. His aim was apparently, to take control of Kuwait's oil reserves. Iraq accused Kuwait, and also ...

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Many Americans stated that this war is not about terrorism, its more based on Imperialism, because president Bush as we know, broke protocol with the United Nations, and ignored the law of the land, but there were no significant reason to go and invade the Middle East, and neither a justified reason. ...

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Almost everything Saddam Hussein did for the world wasn't good, when the Gulf War ended in 1991, the United Nations resolved that the economic embargo on Iraq would be lifted if Iraq destroyed its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs within six months. Iraq refused to do so. So it made ...

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For more than a century, major powers have tried to control an enormous source of wealth and power in the Middle East. ... Oil is plentiful in the Middle East with the two largest holders, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, managing the oil price time bomb. ...

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He was a threat to both America and Israel, and indeed to stability in the Middle East. By overthrowing Hussein and 2 replacing him with a democratic, pro-American leadership, the U.S. will gain a valuable ally in the Middle East and, perhaps best of all; will liberate the oppressed people of Iraq. ... For more than 20 years, Saddam Hussein has pursued his ambition to dominate Iraq and to broader Middle East using intimidation, coercion and annihilation of all those who might stand in his way. ...

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Countries like Israel currently recognize the potential menace of Saddam Hussein and as a result, concerns have been raised about the overall security of the Middle East relative to the actions of Saddam Hussein. ... The support for military interventions as well as economic sanctions stem from a preventative thread based in the desire reduce the leaders capacity to do harm, either in the form of the use of nuclear weapons or through actions that would result in diminishing availability and free trade of oil products between the countries of the Middle East and the countries of the Eur...

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By some force that I'm willing to attribute to the tendency of Americans to view the Middle East as homogenous in any degree despite the ongoing conflicts that make it readily apparent that it is not, roughly 50% of Americans in 2002 believe on faith alone that Sadaam Hussein was responsible for any part of the attacks. ... The first concern, already noted, is that of sovereignty "I think that this country has no idea how to apply what partial success it has had toward protecting the sanctity of multiple cultures to any other region, especially the Middle East. ...

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