This administration was not entering into this war without its own interests addressed since they received $6 billion (US) from Kuwait in support for the United States forces. The USA had its own interests in mind and the most important to them was not the safe return of all Kuwaiti land but rather the oil with which Kuwait would owe them for returning their land. This war was also known as the Desert Storm. Desert Storm was not only about Iraq since it affected many countries around Iraq. Some have suggested that Israel felt threatened as a result of the power which Sadaam and Iraq had gained and that is what brought the United States into the war.
The first President Bush also described the incalculable human and political costs of trying to remove Saddam, picturing the United States fighting to hold onto control in a bitterly hostile land without much promise of success. Then
Even there, he is not protected Under International Law if the United Kingdom decides to exercise its rights. For the time the United Kingdom is monitoring the Ecuatorian Embassy and police officers are stationed outside the building ready to arrest Assange if he tries to leave the embassy. However under article 2, United Kingdom, as the receiving state, may at any time and without having to
Many of the cities were occupied by Vietcong for many hours, or days. The US and South Vietnamese showed victory in regaining all the cities back, but they suffered many losses and lost almost all the American public support. The TET Offensive showed the American public the truth of Vietnam, and not what the Military wanted the people to hear. To many, the war was a lost cause, a waste of money and resources. Later, in March of 1968 the My Lai Massacre devastated a town of North Vietnamese citizens.
The First Amendment reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The First Amendment makes it legal to burn the American Flag. Lastly, flag burning should not be illegal because, if it were to be, Americans would have their right taken away. As Supreme Court Justice William Brennan stated, in a flag burning case, "Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so
In 1948, Communist East Germany, frustrated with the exodus of hundreds of thousands of young skilled laborers, closed all border crossings in and out of East Germany, trapping over a million West Berlin citizens with little food, money, or fuel over a hundred miles inside East Germany. For 462 days the Allies, mainly the US, provided the Berlin Airlift, flying thousands of pounds of food, fuel and supplies into West Berlin. The Soviets lifted the blockaded routes in 1949 (Newseum). For the next twelve years about two and a half million refugees fled East Germany to the west through the ‘escape hatch’ that was Berlin. The GDR knew they needed to stop the exodus.
The True Meaning of Liberation When the United States led an invasion of Iraq in 2003, there was great dissent over whether there was enough justification for the invasion. The president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, had been accused of holding weapons of mass destruction as well as committing several crimes against the people of Iraq. The United States government held that Saddam’s regime was threatening to the world and its own people, and many Americans supportive of the government since 9/11 thought the same. However, there was a wave of protests across western countries condemning the act. These protestors argued that there were not enough reasons to justify an invasion of Iraq.
Amie Bradley T/R phil 3 The Future Meaning of War There are many reasons why the U.S. needs to stop military spending around the world. Focusing to the most pertinent factors we see that: Our nation is in the largest amount of debt in not only its own history, but the history of mankind. Also our system of acting as a police like force for the entire world actually creates more tension and violence. This police-like image of the U.S. creates much more conflict amongst other countries, which antagonizes and creates a type of ‘want’ for more reasons to conflict war. The last reason to reject our ‘world-wide military spread’ (which is also the most in depth and most difficult of the three reasons to understand) is: The future’s national meaning and common understanding of ‘war.’ This can also be explained as the ‘Future’s way of participating in a war.
In March 2003, US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq with the proclaimed objective of locating weapons of mass-destruction. These two examples confirm the realist theory that the laws of politics are unchangeable because they are rooted in human nature (Morgenthau). However, as far as war is concerned, the realist claim that the laws of politics are always the same can be challenged. The events of IR in the last century have provoked profound changes in the nature of war. Two world wars, the threat of a third global conflict, policies of mass extermination, the establishment of international regimes and organizations, issues of decolonization and the technology revolution have revolutionized the way of waging war.
The protests continued for months before military intervention forced an end killing many in the process. It is events like this stick with society and are remembered as an event of immense cruelty, suffering where many died in vain. Neither side of the conflict gained anything directly and in fact ‘lost’ a considerable amount. Countless lives were lost and the government’s reputation has been greatly diminished as the US put economic sanctions on china, and large scale protests took place in Hong Kong, Shanghai and other cities. However