Impacts on Middle East – The American War in Iraq
Key Terms: Gulf War, Desert Storm, Mass Destruction Weapons, Iran-Iraq War, the
“3-B Plan”, Irredentism, Coalition of the Willing
Key Persons: King Faisal I and II, Saddam Hussein, Arabic Socialist Baath
(Resurrection) Party, Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), George H W Bush,
George W Bush, Kurds, Shi’ites, Kim Jung Il, Hans Blix, King Nebuchadnezzar
Key Places: Iraq, Kuwait, Baghdad, Iran, Syria, Gulf Cooperative Committee, Saudi
Arabia, France, Germany, Poland, Ottoman Empire/ Turkey
Mid-term Analysis (I)
I. The First Gulf War (1990-91)
History of Iraq: Babylonian Empire, Arabic Empire and the Saddam Idol
British Imperialism and the Partition of Kuwait
Iraq as the “least Islamist” Islamic Country in the 1980s
Background of the Iraqi Invasion to Kuwait
Irredentism, the Waning of Cold War and the American Signal?
Coalition Intervention and the Desert Storm
II. Result of the First Gulf War
Its Mystical Finish by George H W Bush
De Facto Partition of Iraq: Kurdish Autonomy and No-fly Zone
United Nations Sanctions: Oil for Food and Desert Fox
Rise of “Pax Americana” as well as Anti-Americanism
III. Relationship between 911 and the Current American War in Iraq
“Relationship” between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein
Messages behind the Change of Iraqi National Flag (1991)
The Aggressive History of Iraq and Mass Destruction Weapons
Formation of the “Axis of Evil” (2002)
A Comparison with North Korea
Popularity of President George W Bush
Confidential “Post-Saddam Iraqi Order” Proposal of USA
IV. Contrasting the Diplomacy of the Two American Wars in Iraq
USA: from diplomatic solution to “anti-diplomatic solution”
Iraq: from “anti-diplomatic solution” to diplomatic solution
Contrasting Reactions of the Islamic World: Kuwait, Syria, Pakistan, Indonesia
Contrasting Reactions of the American Allies: Britain, France, Germany
Contrasting Reactions of the World Powers: Russia and China
Contrasting Reactions of the United Nations
Coalition of the Willing – what are these 45 nations?!
V. Conclusion – Macro Plans: to start a war is not only to win a war?!
Revision: the “Provocative Strategy” of Osama Bin Laden?
The “Provocative Strategy” of George W Bush?
Question: (1) Why do you think America invades Iraq? (2) What are the ways of Iraq
and the Saddam regime to escape from the American invasion?
Main Text: Found Ajami: “The Uneasy Imperium – Pax Americana in the Middle
East” (H&R P.15-30)
Supplementary Text: CNN, BBC, Al-Jazzerah, Xinhua News Agency on Iraq
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