Iraq Essays

The base of the Just War Theory starts with philosophers such as Aristotle and Cicero. Their first ideas of any war being ‘just’ involves the act of self-defence as the reason the war began. In their eyes, this reasoning made a war just. Ambrose of Milan and Augustine of Hippo …

War is a fight between countries or groups over a particular issue. It is not always harmful or always helpful, it can be both at times depending on the issue and situation. It also depends on the style of war to decide who is right on their side. Wars are …

World War One (WWI) was arguably the most costly conflict in human history. With over “one third of men returning home” with serious mental ailments, this war had effects long after the armistice treaty (World War I Document Archive 18). This war lasted well past the signing of the treaty …

The Gulf War in 1990 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003 both had a profound impact not just on the countries directly involved – primarily Iraq and the United States (US) – but also on the geo-politics of the world. Arguably, the War ended in a stalemate because the …

War has always been horrible. In WWII, civilians were targets as part of bombing campaigns. Now, not only were the soldiers experiencing the horror of war but the civilians too now involved. This continued throughout the various wars like the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War Of Terrorism and …

Almost everything Saddam Hussein did for the world wasn’t good, when the Gulf War ended in 1991, the United Nations resolved that the economic embargo on Iraq would be lifted if Iraq destroyed its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs within six months. Iraq refused to do so. So it …

The 5th century before the Common Era seems so long ago, yet the literature written in the time period has stood the test of time. Sophocles’s drama “Antigone” has many lessons that can be cross applied to the present. Creon’s series of blunders which ultimately lead to his fall from …

“By attacking Iraq, the US will invite a new wave of terrorist attacks” The United States has started the countdown to launch a new war in Iraq. The deployment of 250,000 troops, fighter jets, aircraft carriers and heavy weaponry in the Persian Gulf shows we are on the eve of …

Egypt and Kuwait are both Arab countries, and yet they are very different from one another. Egypt has a culture that goes back centuries, predating Islam, and is considered part of the cradle of civilization. Kuwait is a modern and new country, very wealthy because of its oil, but very …

The Islamic State, previously calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and also known by the Arabic acronym Daʿesh”’, is an unrecognized state and a Sunni jihadist group active in Iraq and Syria in the Middle East. In its …