Why did the US go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Why did the US go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Introduction

When a country is in war, it is the utmost responsibility of a government to provide the necessary measures to fight in a war. In a war, the soldiers are asked to kill the people of another country under the sole authority of the government. The wars with Afghanistan and Iraq are costing lives and money to United States of America. This paper discusses why America is in war and what measures does it take to protect its people from the threats of being bombarded by Iraq and Afghanistan.

Discussion

The end of Cold War brought another war i.e. “War on terror” when Islamic terrorists tried to attack the World Trade Center in 1993 and embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in the year 1998. Another important event was the 9/11. As a response to these attacks, United States tried attacking Afghanistan and Taliban residing in the country. In the year 2003, it tried invading Iraq for the removal of Saddam Hussein from office and putting the foundations of democracy in the country.

War in Iraq

Iraq War, in 2003, was a combined attack from four countries of United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland to remove the regime of Saddam Hussein and capture his weapons. The war in Iraq took place after the votes of the parliament and prolonged discussion. The decision was taken after an assessment of the Iraqi regime. People argue over the fact that people wanted to get rid of Saddam Hussein as he was an evil dictator (Sorenson, 2004). But the purpose of the war was the enforcement of the laws of the Security Council, United Nations. The war with Iraq was not aimed to create casualties or to remove the rule of Saddam Hussein (Brook, 2011). The ambition was to accept the laws and enforce them. Iraq has numerous weapons. United States was aware of the cache details of Iraq and its possession of mass lethal weapons. United Nations knew where those weapons were stored (Sorenson, 2004). But because of the enormous weapons, they were fearful of the fact that Saddam Hussein has weapons through which he could attack the western countries (Yew, 2007).

When the military was not able to find the weapons in Iraq, the purpose of the war shifted to a new focus of establishing democracy in Iraq. The real purpose then was to prevent Al-Qaeda from gaining a safe territory in Iraq where Al-Qaeda uses violent methods of spreading Islam. As the Middle Eastern countries contain the fuel supply of most of the world's economies, therefore Islamic Fascism in any of the Middle Eastern countries is a national security problem (Brook, 2011). When attacking Iraq, United States was unaware of the fact that there already exist faulty lines between the Kurds and the Arabs, The Sunnis and the Shiites and different religious groups. Iraq had been under strong control of the Sunnis since ...