Political Science: Conflict in the Middle East - Essay Example

The paper also argues that due to a serious underestimate of the cultural and the directly related to them political peculiarities of the region, as well as the actual influence of the religious fundamentalism among the Iraqi population, the United States practically had triggered the wave that plunged the Iraqi state into utter chaos. The principle of the necessary evil has always been a widespread approach (in preference to many others) among the policy wonks and gurus of each and every one of the great powers ever since these powers loomed on the historical horizon.

Led by the very same principle, after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, the West and especially the US had changed the course of their foreign policy, in the part of the relationships with Iraq, in order to counteract Ayatollah Khomeini’s radical Shia Islamic regimen. ‘In 1982, the United States gave the world a clear signal that relations with Iraq were improving. It dropped Iraq from its list of states that support terrorism and, around the world, a variety of interested parties watched, listened and drew their own conclusions.

’ (Ted Koppel, How U.S. Arms and Technology Were Transferred to Iraq /ABC NEWS Nightline Show # 2690 - Air Date: September 13, 1991, retrieved on 9 May 2009 < http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1991/ 091391.htm>) Twenty-one year later on, within Operation Iraqi Freedom to the Americans, Operation Telic to the British and Operation Falconer to the Aussies, American and allied troops entered Iraqi territory once again, but this time to topple the dictatorship and liberate the people of Iraq, as the American version of the operation’s name obligingly suggested.

From military point of view the operation was considered an undoubted triumph – ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom was carried out with a combination of precision, speed, and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the