Comparing Terrorism in the United States to Iraq

Comparing Terrorism in the United States to Iraq

Introduction

The article examines the terrorism in Iraq and America. It documents the reasons and influencing factors of the terrorism in both the states. There is no denial to the fact that terrorism in both the states is influenced by each other. Therefore this calls for the comparison between key factors and reasons on which these terrorists' activities are actually augmenting day by day.

Discussion

As United States stepped into new millennium, it was escorted by fears of unanticipated terrorism acts. The wave of terrorism started during presidency of Clinton in 1993 after the attack on World Trade Center. US political analysts deemed that religiously aggravated intimidation will continue to thrive and that its Islamic demonstration will always linger as threat regardless of Bin Laden's destiny. Therefore the War on Terror was instigated by administration under President Bush and has overpoweringly challenged the framework of global decrees and relations formed by the United Nations.

President Bush constantly pointed out to the war in Iraq as the fundamental facade in the War on Terror, and debated that in case United States hauls out of the war in Iraq, radicals will trace United States as spot of their terrorist activities. Even though other advocates of the war on terror repeatedly boomed this claim, as the combat prolonged, elements of the American Congress, public of America, and even American military began to question the relationship linking Iraq and the war on terror. Furthermore several foremost intellectuals began to argue that the war in Iraq is in fact augmenting terrorism. Moreover, some even blamed the United States' intentions in entering Iraq as a means to protect and guard the oil fields.

Framing the War on Terrorism

The Iraq War was a spar prompted by the break-In of the United States and their incursion in Iraq starting from 2003 to 2011 although sectarian sadism persists and has sourced fatalities of hundreds of individuals. Preceding the war, American government claimed regarding the Iraq's alleged ownership of Weapons of Mass destruction. According America the possession of WMD posed grave threats to the international community. United Nation also called for Iraq to verify and declare its possession of WMD (Nelson, 2004). Saddam Husain, president of Iraq at the time was also blamed for supporting Al Qaida. All these reasons led to the invasion of United States military in 2003 and President Hussein was caught and executed. At the onset of the war in Iraq, the United States public and Congress attitude advocated the view that the war in Iraq was element of the international war on terror.

The Effect of War on Terror in Iraq

The Iraq war led to sadism against federation forces and amid diverse sectarian factions that rapidly escorted to the mutiny Iraq, conflict involving several Shia and Sunni Iraqi blocs. The worst aftermath of war was the emergence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, this lead to the advancement of terrorist activities, especially in Iraq (Alissa and Cave, ...