The Iraq War
Introduction
What’s behind the great conflict in Iraq? What’s beyond the deaths of both innocents and military officers?… Is it worth it? What is the major reason and the US government keeps their paws in the country? These and other questions are clouding my mind when it comes in a review in a war that seems never ending. There are many suspicions on where or what the reasons for this war. Some states that it is the revenge of the US from the New York’s Twin Tower attack, while some says that it is the idea of mass destruction invented by promiscuous minds. However, there is another issue that tells the other story. The United States is planning to claim one kind of mineral that might add to their greatness and advantage on other developed countries. The main reason is the U.S invades Iraq in order to access Iraq’s oil, aid Israel, and to achieve a strategic position in the Middle East (geopolitics).
In Politics and War
Many experts reached to the conclusion that the US first attempt to resolve the conflict is to provoke a war. In the long journey of war process, the US derived with the advantage of possessing the Iraq’s oil. On the public discourse on Middle Eastern, oil plays an important role. And now event the idea of water politics emerged. These resources are in great scarcities and now became an important part of the under-recognized geopolitical importance. The geopolitical implications will soon serve greatness in the country that possesses the resources. In the matter of attracting the resources through the use of war is not about the safety of the country and the allies but about the political economy. What makes the Middle Countries rich is their rich oil reservoirs and it seems that it is their upper hand in the global economy. Oil is an important source of economic position in the Middle East in which triggers to the inter-state conflict and co-operation. The conflict between the US and Iraq is projected in the economic development. This is a crucial state for the two countries because they are in tug-o-war for the economic advantage that will soon deteriorate the resources.
According to some political analysts argued that in the invasion of Iraq, the US should take the opportunity to control not just Iraq’s oil reserves, but also its water resources, in the process reconfiguring the geopolitics of the entire Middle East. In addition, Iraq has perhaps the world’s largest reserves of oil. But in a regional and perhaps even geopolitical sense, it may be more important that Iraq has the most extensive river system in the Middle East. Although, there are many resources served for the country, there is no progress has been made or recorded largely because of Iraqi intransigence. America believed, that with their hands, there will be changes. And soon planning to control the water as well (Selby, 2005).
Historically speaking, many Iraqi civilians are still in confusion and with great outrage about the US invasion that is playing with various faces. For them, rescuing the depress Israelites is not the main purpose of the invasion but to claim the supremacy. In the evolution and development of countries, the idea of Fertile Crescent blooms in the Western Asia which is Mesopotamia, the ancient name for the regions in Iraq and the neighboring countries. They debated that before the US achieved their full development, Iraq firstly reached the civilization, development and advantages compared to other regions of the world for more than 8, 000 years.
Now, jumping into the theory of war, the US war propaganda with an aim to facilitate peace advocacy is a doubtful statement. This involves countering asserted justificatory reasons with demonstrable facts that reveal other motives; thereby yielding reflective understanding against the publicly declared reasons for the joint US/UK invasion of Iraq in 2003 with reasons discussed internally months and even years before in government and think-tank documents. More and more researchers suggested that the control on oil was the underlying motive of the invasion and the US justify this by citing an exoteric/esoteric distinction. As with the Iraq invasion so in general such propaganda and its rationalizations can be undermined by the continuous attacks of the Americans – destroying not only the culture, but also the livelihood of the once named as the “cradle of civilization” (Byrne, 2006).
Conclusion
The US is aiming for greatness and planning to control the oil resources of Iraq seems ambitious and greedy. However, until the recent years, the US invasion most likely created no progress.
References:
Byrne, E.F., (2006) Leave No Oil Reserves Behind, Including Iraq’s: The Geopolitics of American Imperialism [Online] Available at: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/philosophy/uploads/docs/leavenooil.pdf [Accessed 26 November 2010]
Selby, J., (2005) The Geopolitics of Water in the Middle East: Fantasies and Realities, Third World Quarterly, 26(2) [Online] Available at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/js208/thirdworldquarterly.pdf [Accessed 26 November 2010].
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