Piercing The Veneer

Invading Iraq was—and remains—a highly debated and controversial decision within both world politics and the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. With a growing number of deaths, rising tensions in the Middle East, and a failure to find any weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the voices condemning the Bush administration have been increasing ever since the decision to go to war was announced. While many scholars have traditionally argued against the war, this paper will argue that the Iraq War can be justified.

In our society, oil is one of the core requirements. Whether it is to drive from a point A to a point B or to fly between distant countries, oil always had a fundamental impact on our civilization. Its impact is felt, on a daily basis and under many aspects. Not a day goes by without hearing about the Brent's changing undulation, on the markets in New York or London. Some have thought that the desire to gain control of Iran's oil resources was the core of the CIA's intervention in that country, in the 1950s. In recent years, it was considered, by left-wing groups, that the war in Iraq was based upon an attempt of foreign control over the Iraqi petroleum resources. Even though both events have an unquestioned place

Oral piercings have become more and more popular among the past couple of decades, especially with younger groups of people.1 They get these piercings because they think it will make them more popular in their social groups or because they think it looks good to get their tongue or lip pierced.2 Years ago, people got piercings because of their certain religious practices or different ethnic groups, but today oral piercings are becoming increasingly popular with the general population regardless of their cultural beliefs.3 The most common places to get piercings in the mouth are the tongue and the lips.4 Over the years, though, the tongue has become very popular.3 With piercings becoming more prevalent, research is finding that there and many complications and risk factors involved. One of the risk factors from getting an oral piercing is infective endocarditis. This is especially significant for someone who has heart disease because he is more prone to getting infections.5 Furthermore, Oral piercings are not to be considered a simple procedure that can be done by anyone, they should actually be considered a surgery that is to be done by professionals because of the complications that can arise from them.6 Some of the early complications from getting oral piercings include pain, swelling of the piercing site, bleeding, and infections.7 Following, late complications consist of localized periodontitis, irreversible gingival recession, fractured or chipped teeth, and difficulty

The Iraq war had a lot of different causes and effects on the United States. There has been a lot of controversy about why we started the War; a big theory is that we entered the war over oil because Iraq wouldn’t let America buy oil. Another big reason is because of the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center. Combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, invaded. Hard fought war which concluded with the capture of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad by American troops. The main reason is that the United States and the United Kingdom thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which they didn’t.

With the benefit of hindsight, many people consider the invasion of Iraq a failure. After the initial invasion of Iraq, things go worse instead of better within the country. Ultimately both the United States and Iraq payed a heavy cost due to Western intervention, which this paper will later discuss. The purpose of this research paper is to the Iraq invasion which includes the events leading to the invasion, the invasion itself, and the consequences. The purpose of examining the Iraq invasion as a whole is because a proper understanding of the event cannot be achieved without proper context. Actions have consequences, which this paper will explore. Although the invasion of Iraq took place in 2003, the first paragraph will discuss the country

It is not only the economic advantage from Kuwait oil, or the unclear nationalism (Kuwait separated from Iraq with the supporting of Britain), but also desire to re-establish the Babylon emprise of Saddam Hussein. The desire of rebuilt the large Arabic union also try to separate the effects and relations of the US and other Western countries in Middle East. This idea can be seen in Desert Storm campaign, Iraq tried to entice the support from Middle East countries by launching missile to Israel and Saudi Arabia to embroil entire Middle East into the war. This is a remarkable failure perspective of Saddam Hussein because the capitalism, which existed in many Middle East countries and usually considered the US and Israel as enemies, now collapsed. Iraq was isolated because not only there is no acceptable for its invasion war, but also the countries favor America as a great partner have been increased significantly. If Saddam Hussein was success, the roles of US in Middle East might be changed. Moreover, what makes Saddam Hussein confident to wage war may be his chemical weapon strategy that had been used before in the Iran and Iraq war, or his underestimate with the strength of the US and its allies. From the context above, the necessary of stop Iraq’s invasion and balance its powers expand in Middle East could not be hesitated any more with the US.

This book’s main focus is essentially the transformation of the land on the Arabian Peninsula due to the American oil explorers who want to exploit the land to gain access to the huge oil reserve that is the Middle East, in this case Saudi Arabia. The Americans are first described as harmless except by Miteb al-Hathal, who senses that they are devils who cannot be trusted and that something bad will happen because of them, which no one believes. It turns out, in the end, that he was right and if the Emir had realized what was going on earlier and actually worked to stop it then things wouldn’t have turned out so bad for the people.

It is at this backdrop that the paper will look into the relationship of these two gulf counties including Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria. Besides the proxy war, there is also the fervor of armed militants in the Gulf that are motivated by their

The congressional override of Obama’s veto has drawn a lot of speculation from different quarters in the public domain especially since the congress comprising of a majority of democrats and republican have overridden the veto unanimously. The veto was to ensure that the Saudi Arabian kingdom was not sued in any way or its citizens and especially sponsors who were suspected to have funded al-Qaida. The courts could thus not pass judgments against Saudi Arabia, which is a sovereign nation. The victims in this case wanted the congress to side with them and provide them a means of obtaining justice. The article further showed the congress override and the passing of a law that could spell disaster for either Saudi Arabia or the American economy since the Saudi kingdom has opted to remove its investments, which are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Foreign relations against the United States and Saudi Arabia can be hampered in the process as the article notes. Therefore, the article focusses on the victims and families of the attacks and the delayed justice system, which has not been helped by the president especially since the Saudi kingdom, has been

Saddam’s decision to invade Kuwait was largely the result of the disappointing outcome of the Iran-Iraq war, combined with traditional Iraqi skepticism about Kuwait’s legitimacy, resentment over “stolen” Iraqi oil from the Rumaila field, and Kuwait’s overproduction of oil. The invasion was widely condemned as it blatantly violated international laws prohibiting the conquest of sovereign states and because Iraq’s presence in Kuwait posed a danger to the Gulf States. The act was seen as so egregious that even Bin Laden condemned it and offered to defend Saudi Arabia against Saddam’s Ba’athism on the condition that American troops would not be allowed in–the Saudi officials rejected his offer. In response to the invasion, the Bush administration

The Gulf war and the Iraq war were two wars in which the primary antagonist was Saddam Hussein. These two are current wars that coercied the establishment of the Middle East, as well as global security, it has been contemplated that the real direction leading toward the intervention of the west in both wars, was not what the alliance wanted that was, led by the United States. This brought about justifying their intervention, instead of targeting the retaliation from the West, which was protected by the Middle East and the oil supply that was close to falling in Sudan Hussein’s full control. Now these wars are both similar to the concept America’s policy in regard to its benefit, throughout the nation. One author and military patriot qouted

The United States’ exchange of protection for oil with the Royal Family lead to terrorism in the Middle East due to the American forces and presence that existed in Saudi Arabia. In the film “Blood and Oil”, the United States’ agenda within the Middle east became more than just protecting the Royal family for Oil, it became that the US was protecting their income of oil. Ronald Reagan states in a clip, “Saudia Arabia provides the bulk of the energy that is needed to turn the wheels of industry in the western world; There’s no way we can stand by and see that taken over by anyone who would shut off that oil”. During the invasion of Iraq in Kuwait, Dick Cheney went to Saudia Arabia to convince King Fahd that the Royal Family and the country

The prince is responsible for selling natural gas drilling rights to the Chinese, thus angering the Americans. Furthermore, the Prince’s father, the emir, has good relations with America and allows them to keep military personal in his country. The allowance of US troops is of specific value in comparison, notably, with Saudi Arabia. This is a major sore spot for many fundamentalists as it is viewed as a military occupation of holy grounds. Osama bin-Laden is known for brandishing this point as a major reason for hating America (Zeiden 2001). It also angers Prince Nasir, who believes in reforms to move his country away from dependence on oil and foreign nations. This is noticeably in opposition to American oil interests, so they subsequently bomb the Prince as he attempts to secure the throne away from his brother (emir content with continuing former policies). US interference in Middle Easter politics is extremely common. America, and other European nations, has supported both oppressive regimes and military coups to secure oil interests (Zunes; Pitz, Lecture Modern Iran). In doing so, they have blocked the path to democracy and self-determination for many nations.

In the “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, And Power,” Yergin undertakes the reader upon a thorough and enjoyable journey through oil history, from the first 1859 well drilling by Colonel Edwin in Pennsylvania during up to the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein in a wrathful grab for oil and wealth in 1990 August. Yergin explores the role of oil in warfare, depicts the ever-changing organization of the oil sector, and examines the prominent, as well as often flamboyant petroleum players. The book is a well-researched and well-written, and supplement to a history branch, which until very lately, had been regrettably neglected—history of business.

The Veneer Theory proposes that humans are fundamentally selfish and that morals are merely a thin veneer of civilization over the inner beast. William Blake’s “London” seems to be putting this theory to the test. Through imagery that forces the reader to acknowledge the cries of those less fortunate citizens of London; metaphor which names who exactly is to blame for their misfortune; and symbolism encoded to stop just short of inciting revolutionary action against church and state, William Blake’s “London” demands that the reader not only question all authority they hold in esteem, but also demands that they use any means necessary to reform it. Unless the reader wants to validate the Veneer theory, by demonstrating that they are fundamentally