Does the U. S Policies create Terrorism?

Terrorism

Does the U. S Policies create Terrorism?

Terrorism is a very complicated phenomenon that has a variety of causes. The issue of terrorism has hard hit many of the countries across the globe and the U.S has not been spared form this attack. The wave of terrorism that is being experienced throughout the world is a very serious issue and there is a need to understand the causes of the acts of terrorism in different parts of the world. One of the major issues that have been seen to cause the wind of terrorism is the policies that the United States creates (Washington’s Blog, 2014). The foreign policy that has been created by the United States has led to the radicalization of the Middle East in the eyes of the United States. As a result, the United States has moved majority of their soldiers to the Middle East to combat the feared threat of terrorism. As a result, terror has been created in these countries by the threats that the United States is going to attack them.  The United States of America has through its military forces and with the help of some of the Middle East people overthrown prominent people who had held these countries together. A good example is the overthrowing of the Iran Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in the year 1953 by the CIA, an event that led to the rise of the Mullahs (Washington’s Blog, 2014). This has led to the rise of terrorist group such as the Al-Qaeda and recently the Isis that is created havoc in many states.

United States of America has also been known to support the fundamentalist Islamic radicals in Saudi Arabia by funding their Madrassa schools. At the same time, there has been an attack at the moderate Arabs in these countries, an issue that has led to the proliferation of the harsh Arabs that have led to the creation of the terrorist groups. In the fight against terrorism that has been carried out by the United Nations to the Middle East countries such as Iraq, there has been a massive killing of people (Rosenberg, 2013). Though the target is on the terrorist groups, there has been a massive killing of thousands of innocent men, women, and children in these states. This has been made even worse by the bombings that the United States has carried out in these countries. As a result of killing many innocent people, there has been the creation of enmity by these people to the people of the United States. For every terrorist that the United States government kills, it created a hundred of enemies and these are the same people who turn to these countries as the terrorists (Rosenberg, 2013).

The United States through its foreign policies on terrorism has attacked different countries in the Middle East and replaced the leaders who are seen to be the ones who lead terrorism with other leaders chosen by the United States. The recent event was the capture and murder of Saddam Hussein and his replacement with Nuri Al Maliki. This rapid change of governments has led to the rise of the groups that had been suppressed by the former regime. These groups come together in order to be able to protect the interests of their people. As a result, these rising groups rise to gain power and form terrorist groups. These groups rise because the foreign policy of the United States against terrorism does not safeguard them from the oppression of the reinstated governments. The continued oppression of the Sunnis by Maliki led to the formation of groups to liberate them. When this group grew to maturity, it came to be known as the ISIS (Durani, 2014). In the end, there was the creation of a terrorist group in the pretence of combating terrorism.

Does the U.S. Use Terrorism as Part of It Foreign Policy

            The United States has been using terrorism as part of its foreign policy. The way that the United States has been treating the states that have been seen as the ones that leads terrorism could only be compared to terrorism. The United States through attacking the terrorist groups has shed blood and led to the loss of life of very many innocent men, women, and children in the Middle East and especially Iraq. Terrorism is considered as terrorism because of the massive attack by a group of armed people on another group of innocent people. This is what the United States army has been doing according to the directions of the U.S foreign policies on the battle against terrorism. The reason why the United States set out its foot to the Middle East was to fight the terrorist groups (Boardman, 2013). However, due to the lack of proper identification skills and the use of dangerous weapons such as bombs, the U.S has killed many people who have not been involved in the act of terrorism.

The way the United States has been working out its affairs in the countries that have been accused of perpetrating terrorism could be likened to the act of terrorism. This is because the United States have in some instances been funding radicalized Arabs and their Madrassas so that the can assist them in eliminating the leaders that they are targeting. This act of financing the radicalized Arabs so that they can attack and eliminate the leaders that these people have been avoiding is similar to the act of terrorism (Pillar, 2001). By funding them and giving them weapons so that the can perform the will of the United States has been the act of using terrorism to combat terrorism.

Another manner that the U.S has led to the use of terrorism as a part of the foreign policy has been the way the U.S has been overthrowing leaders and replacing them with other leaders who have continued to perpetrate the atrocities that were being committed by these leaders. A good example is the way that Saddam Hussein was overthrown and replaced with Maliki. Instead of Maliki ending the oppression the Saddam was doing to the Sunnis, he continued with the same oppression(Washington’s Blog, 2014). The United States need to give the people of these countries the freedom to choose the leader that they want to have and safeguard their interests. The authoritarian mode of government that the U.S has introduced in these countries can be compared to the atrocities that are committed by the terrorists on their targets. Therefore, it is very eminent that the United States has been using acts of terrorism in their foreign policy that has been aimed at combating terrorism.

References

Boardman, W. (2013). US Foreign Policy: Terrorism in Response to Terrorism. Retrieved June 3, 2015, from http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-foreign-policy-terrorism-in-response-to-terrorism/5359399

Durani, L. (2014). The Cause of Terrorism. Foreign Policy Journal .

Pillar, P. R. (2001). Terrorism and U.S. foreign policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

Rosenberg, M. (2013, June 24). It’s Time to Reconsider U.S. Policies That Create Terrorists. Retrieved July 3, 2015, from The World Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/its-time-to-reconsider-us_b_3146845.html

Washington’s Blog. (2014, September 24). U.S. Foreign Policy Created Many More Terrorists Than It Killed. Retrieved July 3, 2015, from INFOWARS.com: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-foreign-policy-created-many-more-terrorists-than-it-killed/