My Personal Analysis of Current Events in the Middle East by Behcet Kaya
My Personal Analysis of Current Events in the Middle East Behcet Kaya One has to have a moral reason to go to war! During WWII Prime Minister Churchill of the UK issued that quote, “One has to have a moral reason to go to war. ” It appears that is exactly what the Pentagon did in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks. Supposedly we had a ‘moral reason’ to go to war. However, during George W. Bush’s presidency, Vice President Cheney was the one in the driver’s seat, not Bush. He instructed the Pentagon to arrange and orchestrate the Al Quade attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Not only were the Twin Towers attacked, but they were attacked with our own planes. What followed was the U.S. took action and invaded Afghanistan, even going so far as to bring NATO into the picture. A domino effect created what was known as ‘Arab Spring.’ Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Iraq all were invaded and now these states are failed states. Currently the U.S. has no ...