MIDDLE EAST: From Ashes of Conflict
$104.00
Author: | Biplab K. Mazumdar |
ISBN 13: | 9788170007746 |
Year: | 2016 |
Subject: | Indian Politics and International Relations |
About the Book
Today it is an easy transition to the days of pacts and other barren projects for Utopia-by-signature. Thus the enemies of the United States, after the World War II, appear as monsters, hateful, unnatural. Hence, the unbounded trust is followed by the unbounded hatred towards the Middle East. The history of Middle East dates back ancient times, and throughout its history, the Middle East has been an epicentre of world affairs. The Middle East is also the historical origin of three of the world?s major religions----Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Middle East is generally an arid and hot climate, with several major rivers providing for irrigation to support agriculture in limited areas. Many countries located around the Persian Gulf have large quantities of crude oil. Why is it so important? The Middle East remains a strategically, economically, politically, culturally and religiously brought-up region.
The term ?Middle East? may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office. It became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to designate the area between Arabia and India. The tragedy derives from geographic position between Israel and Palestine. From this imposed solution has sprung the Palestine?s constant fear of Israel. The real tragedy is that isolationism of some Arab countries further weakens the infrastructure of Arab World Unity. Who has turned the Arab countries loose?
Foreign policy is simple, selfish and within the realm of possibility. The United States wishes to protect herself from military or political intrusion either by European powers or by Islamic powers. In the last century, the United States began to forget the facts of power and of human iniquity over Korea, or Vietnam or Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan, which her eighteenth century founders had so clearly seen. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.