Societies in Crisis

Introduction

The present situation in Iraq is a graphic demonstration of just how little consensus there presently is in the international community about who should manage what when it arrives to peace building functions. The present situation in Iraq is a graphic demonstration of just how little consensus there presently is in the international community about who should manage what when it arrives to peace building functions.

The present situation in Iraq is a graphic demonstration of just how little consensus there presently is in the international community about who should manage what when it arrives to peace building functions.

Discussion

The conventional outlook of U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf is that American strategy and infantry posture are founded mainly on ensuring an uninterrupted flow of oil at sensible prices. But, as U.S. government articles declassified over the last some years display, the strategy has furthermore concentrated on preventing hostile forces from seizing and establishing command of Persian Gulf petroleum. From 1949 to the present, American planners have concerned that a hostile state may gain too much riches and power by controlling the superior share of the world's oil provide -- and therefore become more threatening to the United States. U.S. policy in the direction of the region has therefore searched the "denial" of oil to foes while assuring its flow to the West. (Khomeini 50)

Indeed, in 1949, the worry of a Soviet seizure of oil assets in the Persian Gulf directed U.S. policymakers to design the destruction of regional oil facilities. In coordination with the British government and U.S. and British oil businesses, but without the information of localized Arab governments, President Harry Truman accepted a comprehensive design -- recounted in a National Security Council directive renowned as NSC 26/2 and subsequent supplemented by a sequence of additional ...