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As Walid Jumblatt, the Lebanese Druze leader said, “It’s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American
invasion
of Iraq.”
In other words, the
invasion
of Iraq, and the subsequent increase in the rhetoric of democracy in the Middle East, may have changed frames of reference about the status quo.
In the short run, the
invasion
of Iraq has created an intensifying insurgency and incipient civil war.
As many as 60,000, and perhaps even more, have fled since the beginning of the insurgency that followed the United States-led
invasion
in 2003.
And although these differences may grow smaller with time, they occasionally take on an alarmingly clear-cut form, as in the case of the United States-led
invasion
of Iraq.
Bush’s prosecution of the war to push Iraq out of Kuwait, following Saddam Hussein’s invasion, was skillful, both diplomatically and militarily.
Or will religious solidarities reshape Turkey's orientation, as the new government joins other Muslim countries in opposing any
invasion
of Iraq?
In 1918, Wilson’s popularity soared – and not just in China – following an address to Congress calling for national “self-determination.”Overlooking Wilson’s support of Jim Crow in the US and the
invasion
of Haiti on his watch, intellectuals in imperialism-ravaged countries from Egypt to Korea took his declaration to heart, and began to view him as a savior and champion of the oppressed.
While America’s
invasion
of Afghanistan was widely seen as justified, the Anglo-American
invasion
of Iraq produced an open break between the US and its two major continental allies, France and Germany, which were supported by Russia and China.
During President Harry Truman’s administration, United States officials interpreted Kennan’s view as requiring a military build-up against a potential Communist
invasion
of Western Europe.
The American
invasion
of Iraq set the pattern, for it broke the central government’s power and empowered ethnic and religious enclaves.
The Resistible Rise of Hindu FascismIn the 1930s, Hitler rose to power as the world focussed on Mussolini's African wars and Japan's
invasion
of China.
These women are now hosting a new flood of displaced civilians from Abkhazia and South Ossetia after Russia’s aggression in those regions, as well as within the Georgian territories that Russian forces have occupied since the
invasion.
Deng Xiaoping’s economic opening followed China’s bloody – and failed –
invasion
of Vietnam in 1978.
The 2003 US-led
invasion
of Iraq ruptured an already fragile Iraqi society, destroyed local institutions, including the army and the ruling Ba’ath party, and unleashed a violent sectarian power struggle.
Stalin annihilated the Red Army’s officer corps on the eve of Nazi Germany’s
invasion.
There was no need for a costly ground invasion; the enemy could be bombed into submission from the air.
The Japanese finally surrendered because they feared an
invasion
by the Soviet Union.
Many British bomber pilots died, of course, but many more soldiers would have died in a ground
invasion.
Known in the country as the Great Patriotic War, the effort to defend the country from German
invasion
remains sacred to many Russians.
Shinzo Abe, the acting secretary-general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a leading candidate to succeed Junichiro Koizumi as Japanese prime minister next year, put it bluntly: it would be wrong for Japan to send a signal to China that the US and Japan will watch and tolerate a Chinese military
invasion
of Taiwan.
Japan’s Self Defense Forces outlined three scenarios of a potential Chinese
invasion
and are making preparations accordingly, while the Japanese government announced last month that it had formally taken control of an island chain over which China, Taiwan, and Japan all claim sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the security challenge posed by Russia has grown steadily since 2008, and has become especially serious since last year’s illegal annexation of Crimea and
invasion
of parts of eastern Ukraine.
And, just as the inhuman terror attacks of September 11, 2001 severely damaged Islam’s credibility in many people’s eyes, the
invasion
of Iraq, which was based on lies, has damaged both Christianity and the Western community of values.
It opened Poland to Europe, but also brought a fear of foreigners and an
invasion
of Western mass culture.
The third act was born of Putin’s domestic political situation, and resulted in a stopgap solution that led to Russia’s poorly disguised armed invasion, and then annexation, of Crimea.
The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent
invasion
of Iraq was entirely unconnected to Al Qaeda – as much as Bush tried to establish a link.
So an
invasion
might have led to the death of 80 million Americans and the obliteration of Cuba simply because Kennedy’s government did not have the facts right (which is often more common than not when the executive must take a solitary decision.)
McNamara believes an
invasion
would “certainly” have triggered a Soviet nuclear attack against the US.
Instead, Iraq’s Sunnis have cynically used the IS’s
invasion
to enhance their leverage in the ongoing process of forming a new government.
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