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Now Iran lived up to their reputation.
3) Tracking the tension between United States and Iran: What are best/worst case scenarios facing the two countries against each other.
The best case scenario between the United States and Iran is that the two countries realized that they have more in common than they are both willing to admit. The two countries can be instrumental in forging peace agreements throughout the Middle East. The Iranian people are well-educated. As the Frontline video points out, more than 70% of the nation is literate and educated. Therefore, the United States could have a major non-Sunni ally in the Middle East and thereby create a viable balance of power between Iran and the Sunni powers.
A middle ground solution is a stalemate, which we are seeing now. The Iranian government is currently going to do whatever is in its best interest, just as the Americans are doing. Neither trusts the other.
As a worst-case scenario, Iran has developed nuclear weapons and will use them either just to threaten Israel of...
Israel will become a major playing card, and will draw in both the United States and Europe into a World War.
4) Conclusion: Do you think that the video is relevant to the themes of the course Middle East in World Affairs? How? And do you recommend this video for other viewers?
The American public views Middle Eastern affairs in a simplistic way, devoid of knowledge or historical accuracy -- let alone common sense. The Bush administration made Americans lose face, and humiliated the United States. The United States now has no credibility in world affairs, and this course sheds light on the truth of the situation vs. The pre-digested media propaganda fed to the American public. The American public believes in the "axis of evil" propaganda, whereas the PBS Frontline video shows a more well-rounded story. The video is fully relevant to the themes of the course on Middle East in World Affairs. Whether Americans like it or not, we are in bed with the Middle East on political, social, and economic grounds.
USA Hegemony There are no fundamental differences between now and what international politics used to be in the first half of the 20th Century. It is true that the post-WWII period has been more peaceful, but it is not because of a fundamental transformation in the way international politics works. To state that there are no fundamental differences between international politics in 1900-45 and afterwards would be to carry the argument to
To an extent, the idea of Cold War nation building has been in evidence in attempts to instill democracy in fronts such as Afghanistan and Iraq. But as a new president seeks to undo the damage of previous security policy conditions, it is apparent that this is an archaic approach to understanding the way individuals tend to behave under foreign occupation. The resistance that has made Iraq one of
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At the same time, there were planners (who shared similar views as Rumsfeld) that this strategy was obsolete. This contention between the two sides would create a conflict in U.S. military strategy. As the country needs a sustainable fighting force that is capable of supporting the challenges of the nation. Yet, the strategies of the past cannot be utilized to fight future wars. Where, the initial successes in Afghanistan
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Therefore, any war waged on a terrorist group then becomes a war to protect the personal liberties of those who can not do so themselves. However, the United States itself has not even been able to stand up to the standards of liberated individual rights. Within the context of the most recent foreign soil wars, American soldiers in a military base have proven that the nation itself is unable to