The UN only sanctioned a mission to dislodge Iraqi forces from Kuwait, not charging onto Baghdad and overthrow Saddam Hussein from power. Also U.S. forces would be stuck in Iraq for years in unwinnable guerrilla warfare with thousands of lives lost and trillions were sucked out from the U.S. of rebuilding the whole country of…
In this essay, a visual analysis of the difference and similarities between two Western art paintings and how the artists' use of composition, outline, mimetic, intrinsic and other elements of design bring about its visual effects. The paintings are a colorful representation what seem to be high ranking soldiers in uniform.…
Canada was granted the right to self-government in 1867 but did not have full legal autonomy until the Statute of Westminister was passed on December 11, 1931. Lord Balfour, was the one that proposed all Dominions be conceded full autonomy in their legislations. It allowed these former colonies full legal freedom except in those areas where they chose to remain subordinate to Britain. This means Canada, the colony of Newfoundland, the commonwealth of Australia, the dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and the Irish Free State all had established equality amongst Britain. I feel that the statue of Westminster Is one of the best events to happen to Canada because this granted us the freedom to pass our own laws without the consent…
should have intervened before the loss of territory and stopped it from happening. After all, he is the one…
Yes, I to agree that "the failures of the dominant view of terrorism should lead us to adopt either a more critical attitude toward conventional war or a less condemnatory attitude toward terrorism." My stance is a more critical attitude toward war, in fact more critical thinking in general.…
The intervention of America overseas, was it justified? Its all at how you look at it. Some people say it was, because Germany had to much power others say it wasnt. The argument is one big chess game. Despite what others say I say it was justified.…
War should never be used unless it is the last option available, and only if peace will really come as a result of the mass suffering and disaster. As General Dwight Eisenhower said in a message to his invasion troops, "You will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security to yourselves in a free world" (39). The best way to solve a conflict is not to resort to violence, but rather to words. If war is inevitable, then those who had nothing to do with it should be left alone and not involved, such as innocent…
The United States should be involved in the affairs of other countries because what we do for other countries, we get back in return. In The Kite Runner, the Taliban take over Afghanistan and ruled most of it including its capital, Kabul. Since no one could stop the Taliban, many devastating things occurred. “I saw a dead body near the restaurant. There had been a hanging. A young man dangled from the end of the rope tied to a beam, his face puffy and blue, the clothes he’d worn on the last day of his life shredded, bloody. Hardly anyone seemed to notice him” (Hosseini 259). This quote puts a dreadful image in the reader’s mind of how everyone is so used to what the Taliban are doing, that hardly anyone notices it. If America got involved…
In my opinion the U.S getting involved with Chile was a good thing. With the help of the U.S CIA they helped the women who marched for the food shortages. The CIA also urged the Chilean military to take action. When they did on September 11, 1973 when they surrounded Allende with tanks while the Chilean air force dropped bombs on the building where Allende was at he refused to surrender and died. The United States will gain popularity from this and it will be in our history books for years to come. If the United States did not intervenient the president of Salvador would have made a communist country and would be like Cuba. If the United States had not got involved there would have been a food shortage and lots of people would have died of starvation mostly children and women. The United States helped turn a democracy into a dictatorship. But it was an anticommunist dictatorship, so for years the united states looked the other way.…
seem that the immense suffering and deaths of civilians can be justified. The United States must…
The U.S responded inappropriately because they invaded Afghanistan without knowing the surroundings and by giving the citizens of Afghanistan medicine and food to win them over. President Bush decided and wanted to do was to use every tool in their power to fight back and to do that the government need money. Education need to be more funded more than weapons to fight back with a country we don’t know much…
The United States intervention was unwarranted and unwanted. We were trying to stake a claim over a country for our own personal gain, and it was not successful. Not only did we help them become a corrupt nation, but we also aided in their struggle with our consistent placement of United States troops. To help a nation is one thing, but once again we have intervened where we were not wanted.…
Rwanda is located in central Africa and is not very big, you could compare it to the state of Massachusetts in the United States. It has little arable land and has no important natural resources that the United States could use. “The US arguably chose to ignore the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Rwanda was not an oil, gold or diamond rich country and from an economic perspective, the US did not have a lot to gain by intervening.” I found this quote in an article I was reading, it shows us how the United States decided to ignore the genocide due to to the fact that Rwanda had nothing of value to offer. They basically said that intervening would not benefit them in any way so they had no reason to help. President Bill Clinton's administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, according to classified documents made available for the first time. The president did not think Rwanda was important enough to be thought about. Him not saying that he knew about the genocide gave him an excuse not to intervene and made it okay. He allowed the massacre to go on and acted as if he did not know, in fact senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to step in and help. The United States let the genocide happen with no intention of helping all because Rwanda had nothing of value to give back. President Clinton was basically saying resources were worth more than human life. "Our conclusion is there is one overriding failure which explains why the UN could not stop or prevent the genocide, and that is a lack of resources and a lack of will - a lack of will to take on the commitment necessary to prevent the genocide.” The United Nations didn't want to help…
was involved in the development of the country. There are some things that the U.S. tried to do in order to provide assistance before the war had begun. According to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, “the U.S. has been as active as anyone” (Hamilton). They played an important role in providing bilateral aid before civil war broke out. However, when the first civil war started, the U.S. backed off in supplying Sudan and helping them because the conflict did not involve them. The U.S. military did not want to get involved in a civil war. At that time, Sudanese people began to struggle. Throughout the first civil war, the U.S. stayed mostly neutral. After the Sudanese government began to increase their target of civilians through bombing and denial of humanitarian relief, the United States started to respond. After the first war started to die down, the U.S. contributed to the “Operation Lifeline Sudan” which delivered food into the government area of Sudan. At first, it seemed like it was successful. But later, “OLS was criticized as being unsustainable and it ‘only responded to immediate needs and failed to address underlying causes of the crisis’”…
If only the United States had looked past its petty alliances and helped another country gain its independence like we had gained ours so many years ago, this war would have been completely avoided. Unfortunately for the families of over 64,000 soldiers, it wasn't.…