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America and the Middle East: Terror and Iraq
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I. Introduction
• Clash of Civilizations?• Toward a New Foreign Policy?
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II. Islamists and Jihadists
A. Birth of the Modern Islamist Movement1. Rise of the West/Western
Imperialism2. The Failure of Modernism
a. Establishment of Israel and the Six Day War
3. An Old Saw: Apostasy
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II. Islamists and Jihadists
C. Islamists--Fighting the Near Enemy1.Failure
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II. Islamists and JihadistsD. Jihadists--Fighting the Far
Enemy1. The Making of a Terrorist: Osama bin
Ladena. Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966)
• The Sixth Pillar
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II. Islamists and Jihadists
b. Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1988)c. The First Gulf War
2. War with America
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III. The "War on Terror"
A. Afghanistan (2001-?)
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IV. Iraq
A. "Axis of Evil" and the Stated Rationale for War
1. WMD's and Terror Links
B. Underlying Rationale For War1. Toward a New Foreign Policy
a. Vietnam
b. Preventative War
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IV. Iraq
2. Search for a New Middle East Policya. Reverse Domino Theory"
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IV. Iraq
C. Pre-War Debate1. Objections
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. Selling the War
4. Planning?
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IV. Iraq
D. The Invasion of Iraq (March, 2003)1. "Mission Accomplished"?
E. Summer 2003: Drift
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IV. Iraq
F. Insurgency (Summer 2003-Present)1. The Administration's Response
2. Growtha. Abu Ghraib
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IV. Iraq
G. The Shia Moment1. Elections
H. Civil War1. Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds
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V. Assessing Iraq
A. Tactical Failure?1. Absence of Planning
2. Flawed Assumptions
3. Absence of a Regional Plan
4. Failure of the CPA
5. Over Reliance on Force
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V. Assessing Iraq
B. Strategic Failure?
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VI. Mounting Criticism
A. Problem of Unilateralism
B. Rhetorical Problems
C. U.S. Reputation
D. The Realist Critique
E. Vietnam Again?
F. Unity Ended
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Osama Bin Laden
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U.S.S. Cole
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Ethnic Iraq
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Selling the War
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Rhetoric and Reality
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Insurgents
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Sunni Triangle
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The Al-`Askarī (Golden) Mosque, Samarra
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VII. Conclusion
• Where Next?
• The Real Issue