Assignment 3: The First Draft of Policemen of the World Paper



Assignment 3: The First Draft of Policemen of the World Paper

War against Afghanistan

War in Afghanistan ( 2001 to present) is an asymmetrical military conflict between the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), initially supported the Northern Alliance, and then the new government of Afghanistan and the Islamic organization Taliban, which controlled much of this to Afghanistan. The U.S. carried out an operation in Afghanistan as part of "Operation Enduring Freedom", initiated in response to a terrorist attack September 11, 2001. International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) is operating in accordance with resolution number 1386 of the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 (Beres, 2011). This is the longest war in U.S. history. This conflict is the longest commitment of the U.S. military since the Vietnam War (1959-1975). Since 1996, the capital and most of the territory of Afghanistan controlled by the movement of Taliban. Even then, the U.S. authorities wanted the terrorist Osama bin Laden took refuge in Afghanistan. Taliban refused to extradite bin Laden after bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. After the attacks of 11 September 2001, U.S (Bandow, 2012). President George W. Bush put forward an ultimatum to Taliban: as soon as possible to give the American justice bin Laden, as well as the entire leadership of al-Qaeda. On September 21, the Taliban refused, saying that the U.S. did not provide sufficient proof of the involvement of the organization to attacks in New York and Washington. On 22 September 2001, two of the three states who recognized Emirate of Afghanistan (the UAE and Saudi Arabia) severed diplomatic relations with Afghanistan. The war against Afghanistan began and has been continuing since then (Beres, 2011).

War against Iraq

The Iraq war was an international illegal invasion in Iraq by the armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom, supported by a so-called Coalition of willing. It began with the bombing of selected targets in Baghdad on 20 March 2003, and after the conquest of Baghdad and was declared over after the fall of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein by the U.S (Bandow, 2012). President George W. Bush on 1 May 2003. The U.S. government under George W. Bush began the planning for the Iraq war before the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and then used these to enforce this planning in the United States. The United States justified it as a preventive war to a supposedly to prevent the United States from the acute impending attack of Iraq with weapons of mass destruction (Murphy, 2011). For this, the US received no UN mandate of the UN Security Council and thus broke the prohibition of aggressive war in the UN. Since neither weapons of mass destruction nor evidence of acute aggressive intentions were found in Iraq, therefore, the stated justifications for the Iraq war are historically refuted and are often as deliberated as deception by the world public. Instead, often geopolitical and economic ...