Due to factors like nation size, proximity of threats, and regional instability, the legacy of Lebanon for Israel was perhaps more profound than the Vietnam legacy was for the US.
The Chicken game theory is not only applicable to the strategies of current global actors. It forms an explanatory framework for all strategic interactions between any two actors.
It is possible to observe that the US has sufficient strategic reasons to block the creation of a Palestinian State in order to not jeopardize its security strategies.
The mainstream media and the Bush Administration blended the Taliban and Al-Qaeda together making the two groups the same terrorist entity in the eyes of the American public.
The U.S, throughout the invasion and occupation of Iraq, exhibited an overreliance on force, to the exclusion of more appropriate forms of soft power, including the promotion of democracy among the Iraqi population.
Should Iraq erupt into sectarian violence or take an anti-American stance, particularly should engagement with Iran become inevitable, it will have negative consequences for Obama during the election.
Oil has led to economic modernization and prosperity in the Middle East while creating weak states, autonomous from societal demands and political accountability.
Salafism is the belief that over centuries of Islamic practice, certain Muslims have introduced new practices and innovations that have distorted the message of Islam and the Prophet.
Calling the event a crime localizes it, but casting Abu Ghraib as a war crime might help make a moral and legal argument out of what happened.
May a nation intervene in another nation’s conflict on loose humanitarian grounds to serve its own purpose? Interventions must be committed to helping the people who are persecuted.
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