Essays on Iraq

In a typical life each morning, we do our bed, eat breakfast and feed the puppy. In Iraq your laying in bed. Staring at the television. All of a sudden you hear guns, shouts, and fear! As you notice people running in catastrophe. Somebody assaults our nation. Our city. At long last our home. As we run and scourge in fear. How might you feel? That is the thing that a large number of individuals feel day by day in the unjustified assaults of the Iraqi intrusion that still occur till today. A ...

Christianity is one of the longest standing religions in the world. Over thousands of years, it has branched off into varying sects, each uniquely adapted to better suit one's regional limitations and/or personal wants. This is due to the fact that back when Christianity was growing as a population, missionaries and monks would twist and manipulate the beliefs and even add beliefs to better intrigue the interests of noblemen and women. The missionaries and monks believed in the concept that if ...

After a few attempts of outlining the rules of a "Just War" Thomas Aquinas finally presented his version and it seemed the most acceptable. You have a just cause, said Aquinas, when you are defending yourself. You have to have right authority (be a government), you need to have a right intention (not just love violence), you need to have a good outcome (more good should result than the evil of violence), you need to be proportional (not use more force than necessary), you need to have a ...

There was a contract signed between Iran and Iraq in 1937, that brought a solution to the longstanding disagreement, which dated back to the Ottoman-Persian battles of the 16th and 17th centuries over the supervision of the Shatt al-Arab. During that year, both states joined the Saadabad treaty, and for decades the two states maintained good cooperation. In 1955, both Iran and Iraq joined the Baghdad contract. The 1937 pact acknowledged the Iranian-Iraqi frontier as along the low water mark on ...

When you think about terrorism, what comes to mind? Nowadays, the first word people will say is ISIS. Most people know ISIS as a terrorist organization, which is exactly what it is, but there is much more to it. ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and has been around for over ten years, but what makes up this extensive terrorist organization? Let’s start with ISIS’ origins. ISIS wasn’t always ISIS. According to Martha Crenshaw from Stanford University, “…is descended from ...

As people are struggling in a third world country now, and don’t have the privileges we have here in the united states, I believe as citizens of the world we must stand up for others that are struggling in the third world country. That don’t have pure water, electricity, and security. If we are living under a roof and we have everything we could ask for. That shouldn’t keep us blind from the other side of the world. Instead, it should awaken us, we should lend a hand and help our neighbors if ...

In the summer of 1967 a war was fought between Israel and a coalition of Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq. The war only last six days, however, it is one of the most significant wars that was ever fought in the region. The Six-Day War has had a lasting effect on Middle Eastern foreign and domestic policies as well as the day-to-day lives of millions of people. It is easy to make the argument that if the war were never fought, the Middle East would be a drastically dissimilar place than it is ...

The Iraq war started on March 19, 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein's, the President of Iraq at the time, regime. Before the war, U.S. and UK governments, claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat to their security and that of their coalition allies. United Nations weapons inspectors found no evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. President George W. Bush imposed a deadline for dictator Saddam Hussein to either leave Iraq or start a war. The ...

Media confidence in Australia fell to a record low of 31%, and consumers agreed to a global survey of trust and credibility in institutions, and tried to tell false news about the difference between the real costs of conversation. Edomann Trust Scale, in the four key areas of society, in 28 countries, governments, civil society organizations, is an 18-year working relationship in business and the media. Australia and Singapore this year are the only country that relied on four institutions: ...

As the world arose from the ruins of a brutal war in the latter half of the 20th century, The republic of Iraq also began its journey towards prosperity, only to find itself thrusted and shoved back into the clutches of poverty, violence and moreover – terrorism, by a ghastly invasion. This unilateral coercion, and the then military aggression, by a certain extremist rogue power from the west, further provoked the extremist organizations from our region into action and depleted all our ...

The 2003 American invasion of Iraq was a turning point that sparked the Second Gulf War. However; this is not where Iraq’s problems began. Iraq was already an unstable nation, due to the combination of various factors. Post-2003, Iraq faced the challenge of state-building. The old regime had imploded, and the Iraqi state needed to be rebuilt. State-building in Iraq was largely a failure. Iraq has a long history of ethnic conflict, which originated from Western interventionism dating back to ...

What is an insurgency? An insurgency is essentially the refusal to carry out a higher authorities’ orders, and so, opposing the law. Counter-insurgency is so, the terminology that comprises the activities to secure an insurgency and so stabilise an uncertain environment. Counter insurgency (COIN) can be defined as both a civilian and military effort taken against the insurgent force, in order to overcome rebellions with a controlled and proportionate amount of force with a goal to protect the ...

About 20 million people reside in the country Iraq. There are three major groups in Iraq The Sunni Arabs, Sunni Kurds, Shiite Arabs. 62.5% of Iraqis are Shiites. All political leaders since the year 1968 are Sunnis. There is a small population of Jewish people in Iraq. Recently a lot of Jewish people moved from Iraq because of Iraqi anger at the founding of Israel. The official and most used language in Iraq is Arabic. Written Arabic is read from the right side of the paper to the left. The ...

British soldiers systematically abused Iraqis all in the name of defence and intelligence between 2003 and 2009. An array of unlawful interrogation practices were used against innocent Iraqi civilians. Even though these five techniques were outlawed by the Geneva conventions in 1949, deemed as ‘inhuman and degrading treatment' by the ECHR against Article 3 and rejected long before the Iraq War, our British troops utilised them to cause grave harm, in full knowledge of their physical and ...