Us War In Iraq In The Light Of The Major An Minor Powers Conflict

Year 2004, Issue: 35, 83 - 106, 01.05.2004

Salma Malık

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000101

Abstract

Us War In Iraq In The Light Of The Major An Minor Powers Conflict

Abstract

This September marked a whole 3 years to the 9/11 incidence in the United States, and in these past years, not only has its impact on international politics been tremendous, it has also engendered international conflicts with grave consequences. One of such consequences is that it has encouraged majör povvers, especially the US, to label some countries, haven of terrorists and security threat to world peace. Consequently, such countries have becomes targets of the phenomenal Global War on Terrorism GWT . The US-led "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan, which saw the overthrow of the Taliban regime in that country, was a signifıcant debut of GWT. After this episode, a rattled US smarting from the September 11, 2001 attack, took the GWT crusade to the backyards of some other states that it considered axis of evil namely Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Of the three states, the GWT campaign against Iraq appears to be the most controversial and a majör threat to world peace

Keywords

Al - Qaeda, Axis of Evil, Global War on Terrorism, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom.