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The United States got basing rights in western Germany, Japan, Korea, Korea, and eastern Mediterranean, after the Cold War, World War II, the Greek Civil War, and the Korean War. Germany mostly because of our role in dismantling the Nazi regime, they became the chief basing platform for U.S. troops. To such a degree, two generations of American soldiers, learning the language and marrying its nationals. Something similar could follow the invasion of Iraq, which is a good place to relocate U.S. bases in the twenty-first century. The conclusion leads from the realization that our bases in Saudi Arabia not only have future, but the Middle East in general is on the brink of weakening the U.S.’ influence. There are two features particularly untenable, the presence of “unclean” troops in the Saudi kingdom that are charged with protecting Muslim holy places, and the Israeli overlords domination of three million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Both are not standing indefinitely. The President’s refusal to force Israeli people out has heartened neoconservatives, but is just a temporary thing. It is only after we have achieved something more decisive in the war against al Qaeda, or removing the Iraqi leadership, or maybe both, can we compel the Israelis into a staged withdrawal from occupied territories. The level of repression in Iraq and that in Romanian are equal, that are under the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausuescu or Stalin in the Soviet Union. The urban secularism and a grim subservience are both cultural tendencies that stand out in Iraq. Whenever Baghdad was visited by Kaplan in the past, the expressions on the office workers were like slaves carrying buckets of mud. Iraq in the mid twentieth century was the fiercest modernizing With the long climate of repression, the next change of regime in Iraq could bring back to life Prime Minister Nuri Said’s reputation, who has done a lot more than basically any other Iraqi to build his country.
Approximate Word count = 1198
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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