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