Christopher Hitchens – Neoconservatism Christopher Hitchens describes himself as an anti-theist and a believer in the philosophical values of the enlightenment. Dr. Hitchen’s became an activist against Islam when Ayatullah Kohmeini declared a fatwa against his personal friend Salman Rushdie. This event led him to join the neo-conservative side on foreign policy and the war on terrorism. Dr. Hitchens believes that the war on terrorism is both just and necessary. He backs this statement up with numerous facts and hypothetical situations that could’ve happen if the US government had not invaded Iraq.
He asserts that this country is maligned, and is frequently held as a villain by the world. America definitely has critics from without, as well as within. They state that this empire doesn’t do anything unless it is to its benefit. Claims are made that it only pursues naked self -interest (D’Souza 286). Opponents say that the Americans only purpose for entering the gulf war was to protect its access to gulf oil.
Pros and Cons of Closing Guantanamo Bay American National Government Instructor: Nicole Reale Janet Talley October 29, 2012 Pros and Cons of Closing Guantanamo Bay After researching and much reading, I found it hard to write solely on keeping Guantanamo Bay open. Before I read all the information that I did, I was dead set that we should keep it open, but now I am not so sure about my thoughts. I do feel that we need to give the President the right to make decisions in war times and even when the United States of America has been exposed to terrorist. The Scope of the President’s independent war powers is notoriously unclear, and courts are understandably reluctant to issued constitutional rulings that might deprive the federal government as a whole the flexibility needed to respond to crises. As a result, courts often look for signs that Congress has either supported or opposed the President’s actions and rest their decisions on statutory grounds.
Why Did the U.S Go to War with Iraq in 2003? Iraq war is one of the most debatable U.S military conflicts of the past decades. Different opinions exist about the propriety of this war. Nevertheless, it is likely that that the U.S intervention into Iraq was a justified measure, as it helped to prevent more serious and dangerous conflicts on the Middle East. The official reasons to enter the Iraq conflict were freeing Iraq people, planting democracy, and destroying the Iraq nuclear potential.
The USA believed its actions were justified by labelling them as self defence under Article 51 of the UN charter. This clearly shows that the USA based its responses to international aggression on protecting their own national interests. In addition, the USA further showed that their response to international aggression was based on their own national interests with their invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The USA believed Saddam Hussein to have been harbouring weapons of mass destruction which could be made available to the al-Qaeda to which they invaded with Britain, legitimising their actions by again stating it was due to self defence as they perceived themselves to be under threat. This was against the wishes of member
America alone: the end of the world as we know it by Mark Steyn is a unique look at the problems facing America. He is uses his book to serve as a warning to the American people. He believes that if America does reform they will not succumb to this Islamic influence. Just as Europe has, they did not reform and kept things the same and now have the problem of dealing with Islam. Steyn believes that America still has time to change and develop barriers against this influence.
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 Fallacy of Gun Control in America COM/215 The Fallacy of Gun Control in America Proposed gun control laws that ban gun ownership are a violation of every American’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms and should be rejected. The debate concerning gun control has recently become a major point of contention in America. Any federal law that affects the nation must be made using rational and logical analysis. These analyses should be based on individual rights and perhaps even a little common sense. Although these ideals seem simple to many people, they are lost on the majority of the Democratic Party in America.
I worked individually on my paper to research the topic of the war in Iraq and more specifically, President Bush’s policy on this topic. My initial intended focus for my research started with the presidential election debates during 2004 but was redirected to the current President’s policy on the war in Iraq. This transition was, in large part, due to my reading from Fiasco.
Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, claim that the Iraq War and the overthrow of the dictator may have “helped spawn the so-called Arab Spring movement that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in nations such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya,” although most foreign-policy analysts see no evidence of that. (Nowicki) Another statement made by people who thought the advantages of the Iraq war outweigh its disadvantages is that now America finally have a strong allay other than Israel, and the invasion of Iraq help stabilize the Arabian Peninsula. One counterargument is made by Anthony Cordesman, a national-security analyst at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C, that the war's cost in dollars and lives can't be justified "by saying that we have a strong partner or a meaningful strategic relationship" with Iraq — two main goals that have not been accomplished. (Fineman) And the argument of the invasion of Iraq help stabilize the Arabian Peninsula is not even worth refuting, instead of help stabilize the Arabian Peninsula, the Iraq War destroyed the balance between Iraq and Iran, and now Iran became a major threat of America in the Middle