Should The United States Go To Corrupt The Middle East?

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The Middle East is seldom a tranquil state, but today it is worse than ever. Civil Wars rock countries such as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen. Incipient conflicts are emerging in Egypt, Turkey, and Sudan. Surrounding countries sit in danger as these wars overflow into neighboring states. Some citizens violently attempt to overthrow their governments while others suffer the devastating brutality of corrupt dictatorships. The Middle East is in a state of chaos. People flee their homelands to escape the ferocity around them. This disorder has brought about the Syrian refugee struggle, which includes millions of Syrians fleeing to other countries. This mayhem raises the question: Should the United States intervene and try to help fight corrupt governments or should we take a step back and stop using money, troops, and resources to fight a war that …show more content…

The United States has been nicknamed the “Policemen of the World” because of how often we intercede, and many think our intervention needs to stop. There is the standard reason that discourages intervening since it isn’t “our war”, and there are more reasons specific to the Middle East. Atrocities are happening all over the world. In the Philippines, Russia, and many African nations, people are fighting and attempting to overthrow their government. If the United States is fighting in the Middle East to settle world conflicts, they aren’t succeeding because there are similar fights everywhere else in the world. Another opposition to the fighting is that our enemy’s enemy is not necessarily our friend. The United States main enemies are Iran and Syria. Some people think that their enemies on our side, and justify that for fighting. The United States also struggles to pay for this. We have a huge national debt, and financing war on the other side of the world would bring in heavy costs. There are clear drawbacks to intervening in these Middle Eastern

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