| Going through the history of International relations | | | | disease. Iraq was the strongest military power |
| in the post- cold war era, you can observe | | | | among the Arab states. This may have been their |
| several political crises originating from the military | | | | crime. Another reason dealing US intervention in |
| and clandestine operations of the United States. | | | | pulling out Iraq from Kuwait is "not to keep oil |
| This overflow of international crises dealing with | | | | prices low, but to keep Washington, Wall Street, |
| America's operations are better defined as" US | | | | and their allies in charge of setting oil prices" (qtd. |
| interventions". This concept of intervention is a | | | | in. Noam Chomsky, 1991)3. "It's been a leading, |
| well- known term in the political history of the | | | | driving doctrine of U.S. foreign policy since the |
| world, especially during the 90s in the United | | | | 1940s that the vast and unparalleled energy |
| States, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton's | | | | resources of the Gulf region will be effectively |
| presidency. Not a single country has ever meddled | | | | dominated by the United States and its clients, |
| with international affairs irrelevant to its country | | | | and, crucially, that no independent, indigenous |
| than the United States, However, in some periods | | | | force will be permitted to have a substantial |
| Soviet Union was playing US exceptional current | | | | influence on the administration of oil production |
| role in the world. Through history, it has been | | | | and price." (qtd. In. Noam Chosky, 1991)4.The |
| proved that US foreign policy is basically laid upon | | | | other crucial intervention which is called a |
| its national interests, whether political or | | | | "humanitarian intervention" ocuured in Bosnia and |
| economical. These policies are mostly legitimized | | | | Yugoslavia during 1993- 1995 and 1999. Other |
| by expressing moralities and ethical issues. But the | | | | so-called "humanitarian interventions" were |
| motivation attracting US to persue such policies is | | | | centered in the Balkan region of Europe, after the |
| to introduce himself as a new economic and | | | | 1992 breakup of the federation of Yugoslavia. |
| political ruler for the world, as William Blum | | | | The U.S. watched for three years as Serb forces |
| indicated; "The engine of American foreign policy | | | | killed Muslim civilians in Bosnia, before its launched |
| has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of | | | | decisive bombing raids in 1995. Even then, it never |
| morality, but rather by the necessity to serve | | | | intervened to stop atrocities by Croatian forces |
| other imperatives".1The end of Cold War provided | | | | against Muslim and Serb civilians, because those |
| United States with a kind of unprecedented | | | | forces were aided by the U.S. In 1999, the U.S. |
| preponderance over other countries. US economy | | | | bombed Serbia to force President Slobodan |
| and its defense spending a much greater than its | | | | Milosevic to withdraw forces from the ethnic |
| rivals, "its economy is 40% larger than the | | | | Albanian province of Kosovo. The bombing |
| second country. U.S. military spending ($343 billion | | | | intensified Serbian expulsions and killings of |
| in the year 2000) is 69 percent greater than that | | | | Albanian civilians from Kosovo, and caused the |
| of the next five highest nations combined" (qtd. in. | | | | deaths of thousands of Serbian civilians, even in |
| Zoltan Grossman, 2001)2. US is now ruling the | | | | cities that had voted strongly against Milosevic. |
| world in higher education, scientific research and | | | | When a NATO occupation force enabled Albanians |
| advance technology so that others can hardly | | | | to move back, U.S. forces did little or nothing to |
| catch up with this superpower. This extraordinary | | | | prevent similar brutality against Serb and other |
| strategic position of the US is a great implication | | | | non-Albanian civilians. The U.S. was viewed as a |
| for its foreign policy. When Soviet Union has gone, | | | | biased player.1998, in Sudan the US had missile |
| US leaders can pursue their goals without | | | | attacks on a pharmaceutical plant alleged to be |
| worrying how others will respond and these goals | | | | "terrorist" nerve gas plant. Over 30000 civilians |
| will undoubtedly affect other countries. During the | | | | were injured. US blocks UN war-crimes inquiry at |
| 90s, United States had the most number of | | | | the Security Council. |
| international interventions all over the world, | | | | The last but not the least intervention is still going |
| approximately 17 cases in which the most | | | | on. In 2003, to pursue its post 9/11 policies, US |
| important ones occurred in Middle East. The major | | | | invaded Iraq with large ground, air and naval |
| interventions are as follows: 1990 in Iraq (Gulf | | | | forces oust government of Saddam Hussein and |
| War), 1991 in Haiti, 1992-1994 in Yugoslavia, 1993- | | | | established a new government. Since the |
| 1995 in Bosnia, 1994- 1996 in Haiti, 1995 in Croatia, | | | | September 11 attacks on the United States, most |
| 1996- 1997 in Zaire (Congo), 1997 in Liberia, 1998 | | | | people in the world agree that the perpetrators |
| in Sudan, 1998 in Afghanistan, 1998 in Iraq, 1999 | | | | need to be brought to justice, without killing many |
| in Yugoslavia, 2001 in Macedonia, 2001 in | | | | thousands of civilians in the process. But |
| Afghanistan and so many other sanctions signed | | | | unfortunately, the U.S. military has always |
| in UN Security council against Iran, Iraq and Cuba. | | | | accepted massive civilian deaths as part of the |
| All of these military interventions can be defined | | | | cost of war. The military is now poised to kill |
| through the idea of New World Order first stated | | | | thousands of foreign civilians, in order to prove |
| by George H. W. Bush, which US administrators | | | | that killing U.S. civilians is wrong."It is a big idea: a |
| have always been thinking "they" are to realize | | | | new world order... only the United States has both |
| this "Order"- believed to be a real disorder by | | | | the moral standing & the means to back it up." |
| others- by all means.Here, we will be discussing | | | | Former President George Bush, USA Jan. 29, |
| some more important interventions. 1990, After | | | | 1991What is today very much apparent is that |
| Iraq invades Kuwait, the U.S. deployed forces in | | | | US is showing its crisis management all over the |
| the Persian Gulf which turned Washington against | | | | world roling as an international police. The final goal |
| its former Iraqi ally Saddam Hussein. U.S. | | | | US is trying to obtain is "the extension of its |
| supported the Kuwaiti monarchy and the Muslim | | | | political and economic hegemony as wide as |
| fundamentalist monarchy against the secular Iraq | | | | possible".References: |
| regime. US drop more bombs than in all of | | | | 1. Blum, William. "A Brief History of US |
| Vietnam or World War II, the air campaign kills | | | | Interventions: 1945 to the Present", Z magazine, |
| between 100,000 and 200,000 Iraqis and destroys | | | | June 1999. See also Blum |
| civilian infrastructure. US allow Iraqi helicopters use | | | | 2. Grossman, Zoltan. "A Century of US Military |
| of "No-fly Zone" airspace to crush the uprising. | | | | Interventions: From Wounded Knee to |
| Relentless bombing for more than 40 days and | | | | Afghanistan", Znet, September 2001. Web Site: |
| nights, against one of the most advanced nations | | | | Academic.evergreen.edu |
| in the Middle East, devastating its ancient and | | | | 3. Chomsky, Noam. "Gulf War Pullout", |
| modern capital city; depleted uranium weapons | | | | Zmagazine, Febraury 1991. Web Site: |
| incinerating people, causing cancer; blasting | | | | 4. Ghahghaei did her BA in English language and |
| chemical and biological weapon storage and oil | | | | literature at the University of tehran. She is |
| facilities; poisoning the atmosphere to a degree | | | | currently doing her MA in American Studies at the |
| perhaps never happened anywhere; burying | | | | University of Tehran, Institute for North American |
| soldiers alive, deliberately; sanctions continued to | | | | and European Studies.She is mostly interested in |
| this day multiplying the health problems; perhaps a | | | | international relations, US foreign policy and US |
| million children dead by now from malnutrition and | | | | cinema. |