Us War in Iraq in the Light of the Major and Minor Powers Conflict

Us War in Iraq in the Light of the Major and Minor Powers Conflict

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 major powers, 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 significant 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 major threat to world peace.

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