Will Obama end the wars in the middle east?
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M$4 Answers
- Israel vs. Palestinians (especially Hamas-run Gaza Strip)
- Israel vs. Syria and Hizbulla (in Lebanon)
- Israel vs. Iran
- Iraqi insurgency vs. Iraqi government (with US involvement)
- Egypt vs. Muslim Brotherhood (with ties to e.g. Al Qaeda)
- Iran vs. moderate Arab regimes (e.g. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Egypt)
- Turkey vs. Kurds
The following are at times erroneously lumped in as Middle Eastern, but are really Asian:
- Afghanistan (with US and NATO support and more recently Pakistani support) vs. Taliban/Al-Qaeda
- Russia vs. Chechens
- Russia vs. Georgia (former Soviet republic)
All the above have issues relating to:
- Religious conflict
- Control of resources (e.g. oil, water, arable land)
- Drugs (e.g. poppy growing to finance insurgencies)
- Regional struggles for influence
- Nuclear proliferation
- National identity conflicts
- Historic enmity
etc.
From the above it should be clear that no US president will be able to end all the wars in the Middle East. The best that can be hoped for is containment of most, and progress on some. Every once in a long while (think decades, not presidential terms) there might be a peace treaty signed between two specific actors (e.g. Israel-Egypt, Israel-Jordan, Iran-Iraq, etc.).
You can read more at the following sites:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_the_Middle_East
- http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm
- http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm
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M$Now, that being said, he's said he was goign to begin bringing OUR troops home quite soon. I hope that stays true - I don't know if we're helping over there anymore.
Don't get me wrong - I support our troops (and regularly send them cd's and back issues of Maxim etc) but I'd rather have them home than abroad for the time being - we've got problems here as well...
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More like 10,000 years. I hate reading of our soldiers being killed by religious nuts; but, what would you have them do at home? The National Guard belongs at home, but the regulars ought to be somewhere that needs troops.
@albanian - my thoughts were for actually putting them along them Mexican border - primarily in El Paso where Drug Cartels can freely move across the border at will. Innocnet folks are getting shot in that town as movie-esque gunbattles erupt along the border between local law, DEA and the gangs moving drugs.... Scary stuff man...
Check out the link:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11770847
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M$Yes... as Commander in Chief President Obama will end the war in Afghanistan.. everything will work out for the best for our people the Afghan people and our guys will be home safe soon
No... as Commander in Chief President Obama will encounter additional difficulties and the war in Afghanistan will continue for years
Yes... as Commander in Chief President Obama will end the war in Iraq...everything will work out for the best for our people the Iraqi people and our guys will be home safe soon.
No... as Commander in Chief President Obama will encounter additional difficulties and the war in Iraq will continue for years.
Yes... as Commander in Chief President Obama will end the war on drugs... or he wont
Yes... as Commander in Chief President Obama will end the war or crime...or he wont
Yes... as Commander in Chief President Obama will end the war on terrorism.. or he wont
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Without more information this question is incomplete and virtually unanswerable
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Well the tags say Afghanistan and Iraq, so I'm guessing not drugs or crime. Perhaps Terrorism as it relates to those two countries, although I'm not sure if they are using the word terrorist or not. Didn't they sort of ban that for awhile, too PC or something? I'm not sure.
well it IS anonymous, after all, He's not one of our more articulate questioneers!
And now the question has been edited to read
"Will Obama stop end the wars in the Middle East"
Original Question "Will Obama stop the war"
I hate when unclear questions are edited after the question has been answered.
As far as I know we are fighting one war in the Middle East, the war in Iraq so now the tag afghanistan is irrelevant to the question..
This question should have been just re-asked as a more answerable question.
Even as it is now it is a vague and seemingly hastily edited question that will be tough to understand exactly with further editing..
Afghanistan is in Asia.. and is not commonly referred to being in the Middle East
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east.html
I was linking the drug war as it seems to have ties to the war in Afghanistan as that war relates to the production of poppy plants used in making heroin.
The war on terror and the war on crime are forever linked as we often debate on whether or not a crime committed here in the United States is an act of terrorism or a just a heinous criminal act.
I thought about the tags within the question but still could not determine exactly what war they were talking about.. ?..
