History

History

History

The recent US war with Iraq can be considered as an attempt to accomplish the unfinished agenda of the US , of completing the conquest direct or direct , of strategic regions of the world . That the US possessed such ambition has been proved by various earlier wars such as Vietnam War and the recent Iraq war . In to interfere in the Middle East , the US needed a pretext , which it could obtain in the form of September 11 , 2001 attack . It has been argued by a scholar that this can

be considered as the `new Pearl Harbor (Griffin , 2004 ) It is well known to the students of history that the `old ' Pearl Harbor incident compelled the seemingly reluctant US war leaders to enter the Second World War ultimately leading to nuclear bomb attack on the Japanese cities . Similarly , in the present era , an attempt was made by the US to perpetuate its superiority by committing various war crimes in the form of encouraging wars between nations and interfering in the pretext of establishing world peace and solidarity . Various scholars have criticized such a role played by the US . Recently , many evidences have been culled out to show the agenda of the US leaders and deliberate execution of plans leading to the involvement of the US in various other countries of the world including Iraq . In the recent days , the US has been involved in potential conflict with Iran and North Korea based on the argument that they have been emerging as major nuclear powers and there is a danger of these countries using nuclear power for violent purposes . In this essay an attempt will be made to show that during the post Second World War period , the US has been following a deliberate policy of expanding its domination over other parts of the world . This was made possible with the collapse of the Soviet Union . After the end of the cold war , it was thought that an era of peace and world solidarity had emerged as there was no major threat to world peace . This belief has been belied with the beginning of confrontation of the US with Iraq , Iran , and North Korea . In the case of Iraq , it has been proved that there was no Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD ) in the region disproving the earlier contention that Iraq had threatened world peace and security . The US has unnecessarily participated in this war and thereby complicated the world political situation

One argument of the scholars who studied the US policy before and after the September 11 (2001 ) attack is that US administration 's complicity in this event can be noticed . This is proved by the fact that US administration did not take immediate action in to stop the terrorists from causing huge damage . This has been considered as a deliberate attempt to find the reason to begin the series of attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq based on the argument that these regions had supported Islamic militant...