US Policies In Middle East Term Paper

U.S. Policies in the Middle East Let us understand some of the U.S. Policies in the Middle East that the general public must know. Primarily, one must remember that the United States of America has in fact been playing a major role in the militarization of the entire region of the Middle East, this region being the main destination for the purpose of arms exports, thus happening to create a good amount of profit for arms manufacturers, the figures showing substantial amounts of $60 billion since the Gulf War. Arms sales have now become one of the ways in which the U.S.A. would be able to maintain stable relationships with the Middle East. The strategic benefit therein for the U.S.A. is in having systems that have been manufactured by the U.S. On the ground in case of a direct military intervention, which can be used as necessary. (10 things to Know about the U.S. Policy in the Middle East)

The second fact that the public must be made aware of in relation to the U.S. policies in the Middle East is that the United States of America does maintain an extremely strong base in the Middle East, especially in regions like Turkey, and in the Mediterranean Sea, and also in the Arabian Sea. The third fact is that there have been an enormous number of human deaths in the cause of the U.S. policy towards Iraq, and Iraq has never been able to fully recover form the attacks carried out by the U.S.A. In the year 1991, during which almost the entire infrastructure of the country was completely destroyed by the bombing carried out by the U.S.A. In addition, there has been a widespread feeling that the United States of America has not in fact been a fair enough mediator in the issue of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, and that the U.S.A. has been unfairly biased towards Israel and against Palestine. For more than two decades now, the International consensus for peace in the Middle East has specified that the Israeli forces must withdraw to within...

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(10 things to Know about the U.S. Policy in the Middle East)
The U.S. has played her own part in this story, and what has happened is that the U.S. has been constantly rejecting the international consensus, and today has taken the role of something closely resembling Israel's right wing government. This type of open support for Israel has in fact created a huge amount of resentment and ill feeling towards the U.S. In the Middle East, and now, though most citizens of the Middle East have recognized that Israel would continue to exist as an independent Jewish state, they do not seem to support the intense amount of interest that the U.S. has been showing through its various policies in the region. Furthermore, another important fact is that the U.S.A. has been quite inconsistent in its very enforcement of the various international laws and regulations, and also in the enforcement of the UN Security Council resolutions, although it pretends to be enforcing them. The fact that the U.S.A. has been supporting autocratic regimes in the Middle East has led to the phenomenon of the Middle East and several other regions not being affected by the growing movement towards democracy and more human rights for the people; rather, they have been enmeshed in the traditional autocratic regimes of yesteryears, and the U.S.A. has not been supportive of the small and tentative steps that the middle East has been taking towards democracy.

In fact the United States has reduced or at times maintained at lower levels, the support that it gives towards the diplomatic and the military and the economic welfares of those several Arab countries that have been…

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