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¶ … War in the Middle East: A Classification Issue
A lot of people don't understand the wars in the Middle East or what they are all about (Collum). Since 9/11, the Middle East has been a prime focus of countries in the West, but today Russia is also involved and Putin is painted in Western media as an aggressor and an enemy even though he is actually leading the fight against ISIS in Syria. The reality is that the West and its allies are conducting a war against Assad in Syria rather than a war against the terrorist group ISIS. Thus, the classification of this war in the West as a war against Terror is incorrect. It should be classified as a war in support of Terror, as the West continues to send arms and munitions to aid the "rebels" (aka terrorists) who are fighting Assad, the Russians and the Iranians (Durden, 2015). This paper will show why the War in the Middle East should be defined as a proxy war in which the West and its allies (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel) assist mercenaries (aka terrorists) in destabilizing the region (just like it did in Iraq) so that puppet dictators can be installed and the region more easily...
If we start well before 9/11, we find that the think-tank PNAC in America was publishing documents calling for regime change in Iraq and Syria so as to better facilitate the aims of greater Israel. At the same time, pipelines through the Middle East to Europe were in the works. What happened was that Assad in Syria refused to allow the Saudis to build a pipeline through his country. Instead, Assad wanted to work with the Iranians to build a pipeline. This would cause the Saudis and the Israelis to lose profits that would otherwise be generated from the flow of oil and gas through their respective countries. An Iran-Syria pipeline would bypass these countries completely and cut them out of the loop (Escobar).
9/11 served as a pretext for the neoconservatives in power under the Bush Administration to launch a "pre-emptive" strike against Iraq and to thoroughly destabilize that country, which fostered the conditions for the terrorist group ISIS to come into…
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