The US and the middle east

IMPACT OF US FOREIGN POLICY IN MIDDLE EAST

Brief Introduction

The continuing saga of Middle East manifest from the biblical exegesis on the life of Israelites ' struggle in search for the promise land . The struggle from Egypt fleeing on foot and crossing the Red Sea has long been withdrawn from the crusade of Moses

The exploration of Men from the Christian world has not only found the beauty of Arabian nights , the wonders of Pyramid in Egypt and anthropological finding on the wealth of the Pharaoh but the richness of Middle

East resources in oil wells and gold

A few among men found Middle East in search of destiny from its aboriginal concepts to the foundation of Islam . The transformation of Middle East to the life of the world is carried out by the insatiable desire of men to capture the once pristine and innocent Muslim world

Today , Middle East surpasses from the annals of time where the dryness of desert is dumped with bloodbath the fate of the Middle Eastern people is laid from the palm of the explorer

Shooting Birds with One Stone : The US in Iran-Iraq Conflict

The holocaust of Iran-Iraq war is described as one of pandemic mass slaughtering in the 20th century history of Middle East with human casualty toll estimated figures of about 1 to 2 million . It was not only the loss of lives but of financial cost of war that is attributed to being a substantial health budget of poor countries in South East Asia

Iraq invaded Iran on September 22nd 1980 . In which earlier before on that fateful date , similar local rebellion occurred that sparked the invasion . Two years later , Iranian civilian populace resistance enabled the fight and causing Iraqi 's withdrawal . A twist of fate has changed the offensive positioning of Iran but defeated by Iraq 's modernized weapons . The Iran-Iraq war lasted for eight years from 1980 to 1988

The defection of Iraq to the Communist Russian Soviet has pledged the supplying of weaponry and financial aids relatively to purchase modernized weapons from France . Meanwhile , the United States covertly provided weaponry to Iran through the facilitation of Israel . The reasons behind the covert activity of US were due to the cold war conflict with Soviet Union . In which case , the US was likened to shooting two birds with one stone - overcoming two enemies with a single shot of sling - without direct participation in the battlefield

Utilizing the US-Israel diplomatic ties , access to intelligence information were secretly supplied to Iran by the CIA , to overwhelm the fallacy of possible direct aggression of Soviet troops , to mislead Iran from its defensive strategies and rely dependency to US (Shalom , S .R 2005 . By providing the so-called open source information , the CIA purposely makes the cover of plans to position with Iran at the time of winning the war . Likewise , a disintegrating information reached Moscow for a possible direct participation of US . The information was passed to demoralize and disintegrate Iraqi 's offensive-defensive...