Foreign Policy Debate The Current U.S foreign policy in the Middle East has a goal to advance peace‚ security‚ and prosperity in the Middle East. The Current foreign Policy is also supposed to defeat Al-Qa’ida and its extremist affiliates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The United States Foreign policy protects the U.S citizens by governing international relations‚ but the current U.S. foreign policy undermines our national security in the Middle East‚ through drone strikes‚ the war in Afghanistan
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“It might take a year‚ it might take a day‚ but what’s meant to be will always find its way.” ~Anonymous Fate and destiny are supernatural concepts that many take the time to consider while others disregard as notions beyond scientific understanding. The quote above represents the idea of providence; events that are intended to occur will occur and no one can stop them from taking place. In his writings of The Scottish Play‚ Shakespeare suggests that individuals have the ability to make choices
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The Syrian Civilian Conflicts The Syrian conflicts have been occurring since the 15th of March 2011‚ as a secular revolt against autocracy. It turned out to be more than just a conflict that would be resolved with war. Some claiming it started of with only peaceful demonstrations then it evolved in to a continuous matter of disasters. While others claimed that they were more than just ‘peaceful demonstrations’. Obviously each discourse has their reasons for believing the truth they want to believe
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The war in Syria has been happening for over five years and has claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people. The problem began in 2011 in the Syrian city of Deraa. It started off between soldiers who support the President of Syria‚ Bashar al-Assad‚ and a group of rebels who don’t want him in power anymore. The problem with them started with the local people who protested after 15 schoolchildren were arrested and reportedly tortured for writing anti-government graffiti on a wall. Their
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-Background- Reports say that more than 40‚000 people have died in the fights between President Bashar al-Assad’s government and rebel forces that want him out. The Red Cross has called it a state civil war. It all started in March 2011 in a Syrian city called Deraa. People stormed the streets to protest after 15 schoolchildren had been arrested and reportedly tortured for writing anti-government graffiti on a wall. The protests started very calmly‚ only claiming to release the children and wanting
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started occurring. Arab Spring is known as a series of anti-government protests and uprisings across the Middle East in 2011. President Bashar al-Assad did not take kindly to these protests happening. The protesters did not agree with what President Bashar was preaching. He realized something had to be done about these people protesting against his word. Bashar officially started the war by taking things too far; he thought the necessary means to get them to stop would be the kidnapping‚ torturing
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Syria‚ a country located in the Middle East‚ has been run by a perilous man named Bashar al-Assad. He has been in power since the death of his father‚ named Hafez al-Assad‚ since June 20‚ 2000. Bashar was elected in a public referendum and won 97 percent of the vote and was chosen for a seven year term. Still till this day he still runs the lives of those who wish to dethrone him. Also‚ he was selected to be the leader of the Ba’ath Party and as well commander in chief of the military. This country
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in 2000. Since his rise to power‚ the Syrian Regional Branch has kept control in what is virtually a single-party system in Syria. Upon Hafez Assad’s death‚ his son Bashar Assad gained control of the country. Bashar Assad has been elected president three times‚ being 2000‚ 2007‚ and 2014‚ and unopposed.(1) Syrian’s president‚ Bashar al-Assad‚ and his family of leaders have driven Syria into rebellion and brought about threats of the next World War because of their lack of human rights‚ government
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slightly different goals from their Arab neighbors. The goal of the protests in Syria was to demand the release of political prisoners‚ an end to government corruption‚ tax cuts‚ greater political freedom‚ and a stronger judicial system from President Bashar Al-Assad. Slide 8.) The majority of the protesters were unemployed youth and families of political prisoners. There were also large amounts of ethnic minority groups‚ like the Syrian Kurds. Slide 9.) Compared to the rest of the Arab world‚ the
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crack down militarily against its civilians. ThoughThe UN made attempts to pass sanctions onto Syria‚ condemning its actions‚ China and Russia vetoed all resolutions to safeguard their own personal interests. Because Syria’s former malignant president Bashar Assad was not brought to justice he was able to proceed with enlisting the help of Hezbollah‚ an extremist Shiite Muslim group with close links to Iran. Currently‚ Syria is home to yet another prominent terrorist organization‚ ISIS‚ the Islamic State
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