American Involvement In The Middle East

Following the Cold War, the United States remained a global presence in many of the world's conflicts. As the world's focus began to shift towards political unrest in the Middle East, the United States became involved in several conflicts within the late 20th century including the Iran, Iraq, and Gulf Wars. However, involvement in the middle east was drastically increased as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001. This new “War on Terror” resulted in another series of political manipulation achieved by dehumanizing people of Middle Eastern descent as a way of justifying the use of new questionable war technology in the Middle East The 9/11 attacks served as a catalyst for American Involvement in the middle east and brought

According to various academic studies, the societal shift in views towards Muslim and Middle Eastern Americans led to an impactful decrease in quality of life for these groups. Following the 9/11 attacks, the FBI reported a 1,700 percent increase of racial and religious related hate crimes against Muslim Americans between 2000 to 2001 (Anderson, 2002). In the aftermath of September 11, Muslim Americans faced an upsurge in negative stereotypes expressed by the larger society either by the media or personal interactions(American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 2003; Cassel, 2006) and Muslim immigrants, more than any other immigrant group, were met with negative attitudes (Council of American Islamic Relations, 2003; Saroglou & Galand, 2004). Since then, increased racial and religious animosity has left Arabs, Middle Easterners, Muslims, and those who bear stereotyped physical resemblance to members of these groups, fearful of potential hatred and hostility from the majority of western civilizations (Abu-Ras & Suarez, 2009; Baqi-Aziz, 2001; Kira et al., 2010; Rippy & Newman, 2006). Although Muslim is a religious label and does not pertain to race, the line between racism and religious discrimination is often blurred (Allen & Nielsen, 2002). Muslim Americans are often

As the United States deliberated the best tactic for the war, a new scientific development was made in weapons technology: unmanned drone strikes. The use of drones to attack possible terrorist outcoves is a highly debated topic due to their uncertainty of executing the mission, and their uncontrollable lethality when executed. Due to uncertainty involving suspect locations and the inability of humans to directly analyze the situation, Drone strikes have led to hundreds of mistaken civilian casualties. In Pakistan between 2004 and 2015, there have been 190 children and 534 innocent confirmed civilian casualties compared to only 52 high profile targets (Pitch Interactive 2015). Drone strikes have had massive failures in the past including misinformed attacks on schools and homes resulting in hundreds of civilian losses with virtually nothing to show for it.(Woods 2011). Even with increased precautions written into legislation and promised by military leaders, illegal drone strikes continue to take place. Military rules dictate that a near certainty of no civilian harm is mandatory for all current drone strikes, however media outlets and human right organizations continue to come forward with evidence this rule is not being followed.(Miller