Eastward complicated - Antoine Sfeir - Essay - Eyes of the World
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Journalist and Professor Franco-Lebanese, he was director of Cahiers de l'Orient, chairs the Centre for Study and Reflection on the Middle East and is a professor of international relations at Celsa.
- Weapons of mass destruction: the main reason given by the U.S. to justify the intervention in Iraq. The presence of such weapons ubx tracking has never been proven while this argument was disavowed by successive ubx tracking UN inspectors and some U.S. experts.
- The democratization of the country, under the vision ubx tracking of U.S. President George W. Bush, the "Great Middle East", and relying on a "domino effect", the Americans hope, by installing a democratic regime in Iraq, participate ubx tracking stabilize and lead a democratic balance in the region. However, such a goal seems unattainable given the way the U.S. military ubx tracking acted, particularly by denying the cultural community and religious diversity of the country ubx tracking (Sunni / Shia or Kurds / Arabs).
- The fight against international terrorism: again it is advanced by the Bush administration ubx tracking denouncing the alleged relationship between the terrorist bin Laden and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein argument. These links, ubx tracking the rest are hypothetical, but appear to be an effective way to ensure the support ubx tracking of the population still under the shock of September 11.
- A war of "black gold" objective, albeit less blameless, but appears ubx tracking more rational to ensure the United States more secure hydrocarbon provisioning, and to detach surreptitiously supplier and ally Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, the production is far from having reached the objectives and desired once Saddam Hussein overthrown.
Antoine Sfeir rejects explanations, in his opinion too simplistic about the true intentions of the United States in the Middle East. Indeed, the author discusses one hand, the multiplicity of governing bodies in the United States (whether the President and teams are state secretaries, the Pentagon, the CIA or the National Security Council). On the other hand, it refers to the many trends that may influence U.S. foreign policy "think tanks" neoconservatives or "born again" embodied by President Bush himself and by many members of the government.
Regarding the war in Iraq, Sfeir advance ubx tracking an original on the true purpose of the conflict hypothesis. Returning to the ties between ubx tracking Israel and the U.S., it argues that the intervention would have to ensure the security of Israel by partitioning the area. And Iraq is just the first step in the U.S. will create several "rump" based on ethnic belonging of the United States, playing on the weakness and lack of unity of the Arab world. a Kurdish state in northern Iraq, a Sunni Arab state in the area of settlement Sunni Iraqi Shiite state in the center ubx tracking and south with an extension in southern Lebanon a Christian state around Mosul and touching Syria Druze State Djebbel in the Golan and West Bekaa a State for Syrian Alaouties in the valley of the Nazarenes a Sunni Arab enclave around Damascus a Christian ubx tracking state in the Lebanese mountains
This last point about the fragmentation of the region appears unrealistic. For example the creation of a Christian state, gathering of Iraqi minority (2-3% of the population) and Syrian Christian, seems impossible because of their
Home Presentation Team Association News International's Africa and Middle East North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East North America Central America ubx tracking South America Asia and Pacific China India Japan Europe France Germany Great Britain Russia Globalization Water Energy Environment Hunger Hot Topics Ukraine Syria European crisis Iranian Nuclear North Korea Arab Spring Géoéconomie News analyzed Situations decrypted Special Edition Retro weekly recap Press Weekly Monthly Annual Retro Retro Quiz History A Year in Brief Events ubx tracking Ante 1914 1914-1939 1939 -1973 1973-2000 2000 Post Historical Analysis The world before 1914 industrialized countries and emerging Third World Ex-world socialist Cold War World and Globalization Resources Biographies Timelines Mapping Files Outside speakers Sheets reading Basic Economics Doctrines Geopolitics / RI Company Quotes Partners Follow us Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Youtube RSS Guestbook Gold Members area Login Contact Press Jobs
Journalist and Professor Franco-Lebanese, he was director of Cahiers de l'Orient, chairs the Centre for Study and Reflection on the Middle East and is a professor of international relations at Celsa.
- Weapons of mass destruction: the main reason given by the U.S. to justify the intervention in Iraq. The presence of such weapons ubx tracking has never been proven while this argument was disavowed by successive ubx tracking UN inspectors and some U.S. experts.
- The democratization of the country, under the vision ubx tracking of U.S. President George W. Bush, the "Great Middle East", and relying on a "domino effect", the Americans hope, by installing a democratic regime in Iraq, participate ubx tracking stabilize and lead a democratic balance in the region. However, such a goal seems unattainable given the way the U.S. military ubx tracking acted, particularly by denying the cultural community and religious diversity of the country ubx tracking (Sunni / Shia or Kurds / Arabs).
- The fight against international terrorism: again it is advanced by the Bush administration ubx tracking denouncing the alleged relationship between the terrorist bin Laden and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein argument. These links, ubx tracking the rest are hypothetical, but appear to be an effective way to ensure the support ubx tracking of the population still under the shock of September 11.
- A war of "black gold" objective, albeit less blameless, but appears ubx tracking more rational to ensure the United States more secure hydrocarbon provisioning, and to detach surreptitiously supplier and ally Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, the production is far from having reached the objectives and desired once Saddam Hussein overthrown.
Antoine Sfeir rejects explanations, in his opinion too simplistic about the true intentions of the United States in the Middle East. Indeed, the author discusses one hand, the multiplicity of governing bodies in the United States (whether the President and teams are state secretaries, the Pentagon, the CIA or the National Security Council). On the other hand, it refers to the many trends that may influence U.S. foreign policy "think tanks" neoconservatives or "born again" embodied by President Bush himself and by many members of the government.
Regarding the war in Iraq, Sfeir advance ubx tracking an original on the true purpose of the conflict hypothesis. Returning to the ties between ubx tracking Israel and the U.S., it argues that the intervention would have to ensure the security of Israel by partitioning the area. And Iraq is just the first step in the U.S. will create several "rump" based on ethnic belonging of the United States, playing on the weakness and lack of unity of the Arab world. a Kurdish state in northern Iraq, a Sunni Arab state in the area of settlement Sunni Iraqi Shiite state in the center ubx tracking and south with an extension in southern Lebanon a Christian state around Mosul and touching Syria Druze State Djebbel in the Golan and West Bekaa a State for Syrian Alaouties in the valley of the Nazarenes a Sunni Arab enclave around Damascus a Christian ubx tracking state in the Lebanese mountains
This last point about the fragmentation of the region appears unrealistic. For example the creation of a Christian state, gathering of Iraqi minority (2-3% of the population) and Syrian Christian, seems impossible because of their
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