Iraq was CoN's My OpInIoN &' FiNaL ThOuGhT Out of 40,146 civilians that were killed 5,800 were children Syria will use child soldiers Retaliation by Syria or Iran against others in the regions such as Israel or anyone to have helped the United States. Sometimes, we're for democracy. This has raised the role of third part involvement as an external actors, such as the United States and China, to exacerbate conflicts in the region. Karim Makdisi: It's very clear that if the United States simply keeps on propping up their people and doesn't allow other people to have a voice. The security environment in the Middle East may be the most complex on earth, with an intricate, volatile and sometimes shifting mixture of destabilizing forces and hostilities. It is about the right of inspection of weapons facilities. In a recent Intelligence Squared U.S. debate, two teams of foreign policy experts faced off on the motion "Flexing American Muscles In The Middle East Will Make Things Worse." fighting against terrorism in Iraq and Syria. He blogs at nationalinterest.org. force in the region. Reasons replaced by Saudi Arabia and Turkey; marginalization of the Israeli The hypersonic missiles induction in the New START treaty is too early to perceive when the extension of NEW START itself was in limbo due to the highly controversial standpoint of Trump regarding arms control treaties. -The New START treaty did not include hypersonic weapons, or its delivery platforms, in the original 2010 agreement. The war in Ukraine has changed the international landscape in Europe in ways which few pundits predicted. The 14th, 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments plus a variety of civil rights actsfinally made voting universal in the 20th century. [11], Why hypersonics are not included in the New Start Treaty. China and the INF: Is There a Future for U.S.-China Arms Control? U.S.-China Perception Monitor. The first decade of the nuclear rivalry between the two sides saw some of the most ferocious nuclear strategies from both sides as the United States, with its massive retaliation strategy, threaten to annihilate the Soviet Union, other such strategies which emerged in the backdrop of this nuclear rivalry was the formulation of MAD, the Mutual Assured Destruction, a strategy that tried to pursue some kind of balance in a nuclear world, that would deter the opponent from launching an attack in the first place. Decades of arms control engagement between the two countries helped both sides to assess and verify each others intent in the face of readily available capability. Treaty must be a part of the national law, ratified by the senate. Since 2011, the Arab spring historic It changed the ways that Americans thought about the Middle East, and the way people in the Middle East thought about Americans. The region-wise deployment is also halted as it was agreed that two systems would be permitted, one for the protection of capital and the other is for a missile complex, but a distance of 1300 kilometres must separate them. Though the threat was finally capped, using the top leadership direct conversations and understanding of situations. The escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan could have been avoided or minimized if there had been effective communication and dialogue between the two countries. UBC professor Dr. Sandra Mathison (ECPS) weighs in on the Abbotsford school board's decision to remove Grade 6 and 7 classes from the district's six rural elementary schools and to bus the kids to middle schools starting September 2017. For the United States, the strategic costs of the Saudi relationship have come to outweigh the benefits, as the tensions and unnaturalness of the partnership make it increasingly intolerable. It could have been more viable in the current times, but strategic compulsions and a newly found place in global affairs influenced US behaviour. The Russian arsenal of hypersonic missiles is threatening to introduce a new strategic instability among the two leading nuclear powers; with a treaty like New START in place, there is a need to incorporate these weapons into the Treaty, and as the only surviving atomic arms treaty between the two nuclear powers. United States Involvement in the Middle East Defining documents in American history: Editor: Michael Shally-Jensen: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated, 2020: ISBN: 1642654000, 9781642654004: Length: 715 pages : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan The logic that guided U.S. ties with Saudi Arabia can no longer sustain their partnership. In the Arab world, Egypts fiercely anti-Islamist leadership may open the countrys doors to Moscow again, while across the region, Russia is getting more attention and respect as an outside player and broker than it has had for decades. The February 2019 standoff between India and Pakistan was a significant event that highlighted the tensions and challenges that exist in the South Asian region. The only glue was the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. But today that calculus is no longer enough to sustain their alliance. Jon Alterman: But if the United States left the region alone to sort its own problems, might great power rivals of the United States move in to fill the vacuum that it leaves behind? But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Are they active in terms of investment and economic development? OPEC, the demand mb/d (Million barrels/day) is 98.82, in total 30.3% Russia is now in the advanced stages of deploying these weapons. For the prior two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, helping to formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, and most recently as the senior adviser for Arab-Israeli negotiations. Years after the creation of the new Federation, Russia remained aware of the fact that strategic weapons hold the key to their place on the top table of global affairs. The United States strongly believes that its military superiority is going nowhere in the coming decades, and has much offsetting firepower to deter any enemy both in conventional and nuclear realms. Another example is Karim Alawi, a member of the Iraqi parliament Andrew Bacevich: I would say that there needs to be continuing diplomatic engagementperhaps more creative in the sense that it wouldn't begin with the premise that we are supposed to choose sides in regional disputes. Anne Patterson: The Bush administration did these free trade areas. When considering regional affairs, countries do President Biden announced the United States has committed $1 billion in new acute near to long term food security assistance for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. What are the reasons We want oil. [12] Thus putting an end to the hypersonic missiles, or trying to put it under the New START is an unrealistic gamble, because US which is now in the advanced stages of producing the new missiles, will want to dominate other countries militarily, as by entering a bilateral accord on it in the form of New START wont discourage countries, like India, China, and Pakistan from acquiring these weapons, so in its quest to achieve some sort of strategic stability with Russia, while instability and maximising threat in case of other countries getting their hands on these weapons. $280 billion into Irans oil economy; an extra $120 billion will go toward East countries were furious about the successful involvement of the United If the order and hierarchy of the region were Americas interest is in overthrowing Such measures should be pursued by South Asian countries to reduce tensions and increase cooperation in the region. For decades, one of the pillars of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has been to prevent any hostile outside power from dominating the region. If and how the U.S. chooses to engage affects the region at a critical time, as power is transitioning from some monarchs who have been in place for many decades. I don't think that's changed, as we've seen with some of the recent flare-ups in Gaza. Within Americas existence in the Because of its great concerns, the United States persists in its military presence in the Middle East and North African Region, especially in Iraq. Fifth, from a grand strategy perspective, The region has a history of conflicts and tensions, but it also has enormous potential for economic cooperation and integration. It mattered because of our dependence upon foreign oil at that time, and it mattered politically because the American peoplein response to the two oil shocks of the 1970sindicated clearly that it was unacceptable for them to have to pull up to a gas station and find a sign that said, We aint got no gas today.. To achieve that objective, the U.S. used direct applications of military power when necessary but relied heavily on local allies, from Egypt to the Gulf states, bolstering them with security assistance and weapons sales. Much of this tension in the Middle East comes from the various interpretations of Islam and how the religion should be applied to politics and society. A Dangerous Transition for America and the Middle East. -Ironically enough, Russia was quicker to field and deploy its first hypersonic missiles. Calls on each Party to reduce and limit its ICBMs and ICBM launchers, SLBMs and SLBM launchers, heavy bombers, ICBM warheads, SLBM warheads. The Pros and Cons of Attacking Syria. We have no expertise on disease mitigation. One of the tragic things weve lost is a lot of values-driven human rights programs, democracy programs, support for civil society initiatives, and engaging in public diplomacy, said Arkin. Meanwhile, much of the permanent military infrastructure needed for large-scale U.S. deployments has remained in place. but the inconsistent American Foreign Policy complicates the situation. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Humanity Amidst Insanity: Hope during and after the Indo-Pak Partition, Warriors after War. Pros and Cons of US Involvement in the Middle East Terrorism - n. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. Clearly, most of the Middle East is Sunni, while the Shia are concentrated in Iran and Iraq with significant minority . In total, Trump announced withdrawal from over 12 treaties and accords in his four-year terms; three of those treaties are related to nuclear weapons and European security architecture. I was presenting my ideas I've had thus far. north part of Iraq and the east of Syria until last year that the United States extremists and terrorists are then able to utilize religion as a political tool benefits from both sides. The United States was already unpopular in the Middle East and in the Islamic world for the perceived attacks against the religion (Hertsgaard 2003). Jon Alterman: As the Cold War ended, the U.S. began to take stock. Article 7. The focus of this debate is the U.S. bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Pres. This is the United States in the Middle East podcast miniseries. His books include Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process (1983), Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (2001) and Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (2011). 16 Jul 2022. The Middle East remains today a troublesome area for the United States. They cause hundreds of civilians and US soldiers dead and Good fight. Diplomatic channels and back-channel communication can play a crucial role in resolving conflicts and preventing misunderstandings. The question confronting the U.S. in the Middle East today is, How can Washington craft a coherent strategy for a strategically incoherent region? The United States has been a major military player in the Middle East for decades. represented by ISIS emerged in the Middle East; the de facto fragmentation and in 2000 is 75.8 million barrels, while in 2018, according to data published by Jon Alterman: Thats Andrew Bacevich. Jon Alterman: However, the United States is not only focused on the region because of its oil. If the US became involved in foreign conflicts instead of upholding neutrality, it would greatly reduce the options for global commerce as we could not trade with the enemy. Arkin is policy director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic staff, Brandenburg is senior policy adviser for Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, and Razavi is a political anthropologist and visiting assistant professor at The College of William and Mary. The United States has resolved to pull its forces out of Syria. Patterson was also ambassador to Pakistan, Colombia, and El Salvador, and she served at the United Nations. Their worst intentions were often at least curbed a bit by the U.S. coming in and saying, you cant do that, said Brandenburg. The outcome: Middle East refugees are having a difficult time whether they are in refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan or elsewhere. -By including hypersonic weapons and delivery platforms it can help reduce the possibilities of mistrust or reduction in confidence building measures between the US and Russia. Iraq poses no threat to the United States. Jon Alterman: The United States has supported Israel since its founding in 1948. There is no chance that a hostile power will control the region and wield petroleum as a weapon. 2020. The international community needs to work together to prevent nuclear proliferation and promote disarmament. -Russia was largely upset at the US decision and understanding of hypersonic weapons. It is said that China will invest Its Time for America to Downgrade Its Alliance With Saudi Arabia. [6] Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. The region's mix of violent extremism, malign Iranian influence, and decaying regimes require the involve-ment of the United Statesto include the U.S. Armyand can be expected to do so for years to come, even if that involvement What would an effective strategy look like for the U.S. in the Middle East? Of those 14 points, he dedicated one to the former Ottoman territories in the Middle East. The INF Treaty obligations required eliminating all classes of the Intermediate and short-range ballistic missile system. Under the presidency of Donald J. Trump, the United States shed long-standing nostrums about the Middle East and accelerated existing, troubling trends. But he expressed zero interest in resurrecting the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. limited low-intensity war with ISIS and Al-Qaeda. [12] Speier, Richard, George Nacouzi, Carrie Lee, and Richard Moore C O R P O R A T I O N. n.d. Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation Hindering the Spread of a New Class of Weapons. Accessed May 5, 2021. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2100/RR2137/RAND_RR2137.pdf.. [13] MIRVs from the First to the Second Nuclear Age. n.d. Accessed May 5, 2021. https://www.stimson.org/wp-content/files/file-attachments/Lure_and_Pitfalls_of_MIRVs.pdf.. Now, the Biden administration had to pick up the phone, as has been true for decades, and call Riyadh about oil prices. Currently, hes the president of the Quincy Institute in Washington, D.C. Andrew Bacevich: Once Carter spoke, the bureaucratic wheels began to turn and Pentagon priorities changedwith the creation of new headquarters, like United States Central Command, the initiation of exercises, the negotiation of base rights and overflight rights, and the planning for a large-scale U.S. military intervention that had not existed before. economy, the United States has invested trillions of dollars in building a Already in 2020, the Trump administration has announced a Middle East peace plan, while recent news reports suggest the COVID-19 pandemic will cause further upheaval in an unstable region. Therefore these missiles must be kept under the updated New Start Treaty. But this did not happen. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2017.09.002. Im your host, Dr. Jon Alterman, thank you for listening. Article 2. You can learn Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Kurdish or other languages here. Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Feren Silver, Nov 29, 2009. A Symposium. These arms control treaties served as the initial diffusers in any charged situation, as through engagement, a certain amount of trust can be maintained, and a viable crisis management system can be conceived. regional conflicts require more resources to be projected to the Middle East, Coming out of World War II, American strategists resolved that the United States must prevent any hostile force from dominating a region of critical geopolitical or geo-economic significance. Syrias secular Government and replacing it with one that would be acceptable Thus the United States, with a series of high-level summitry engagements, can start a negotiation process on the inclusion of hypersonic weapons into the New Start Treaty. China, the other contender for a bigger role in the Middle East, is aiming not to confront or compete with the U.S., but to fill vacuums when needed and to promote Chinese economic and political interests. terrorism is still a concern in the region. -There are other discussions planned in the future to discuss. [10] Hudson, John. this, America will therefore need to keep its forces in Iraq. The United States involvement in other countries has come at a great price. hide caption, The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens (right) and Michael Doran of the Brookings Institution argue against the motion "Flexing America's Muscles In The Middle East Will Make Things Worse.". For its first 150 years, the United States was concerned with its own domestic problemsconstitutional interpretation, states rights, enslavement, expansion--more than it was with world affairs. On the ABM treaty, the agreement signed after the cold war, President Yelstin agreed to deviate from the standard Soviet standpoint and thus accepted the United States right to develop a global anti-ballistic system, to which Russia at first objected and was curious and angry over the developments in the United States. The Treaty was not an arms reduction treaty, as there was no provision for the destruction or elimination of nuclear warheads and weapons systems. 2023 Center for Strategic & International Studies. Just going to have to do it all over again in six years, 13 years, 17 years, and 21 years anyway. Yet the U.S. still clings to its longstanding, military-centric Middle East strategy even while its underlying assumptions become invalid and its central rationale fades. Other great powers What does success look like in a war on terror? It's just, stick, stick, stick, stick, stick. Look at Iran. That's hard. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. -It was first signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague and is expected to last until 5 February 2026, after it was extended earlier this year. [16]James, Guy Faulconbridge, William. I would argue that it does not help American interests. Karim Makdisi: The United States had a position of great promiseas far as the Arabs were concerned in the Middle Eastcoming in with the Woodrow Wilson era where there was so much welcome for American engagements in the Arab world and in the Middle East. The New Start treaty was signed in Prague on the 8th of April in 2010; the treaty was the first significant arms reduction treaty since the cold war and played a huge role in strengthening overall arms control architecture. U.S. involvement in the Middle East is an important issue in any presidential election year. The US policy as of now is to wait and watch as many Russian claims regarding the Hypersonic missiles are yet to be verified, on the other hand New START renewal gave the United States a chance to save the only existing nuclear arms control treaty, while the entire architecture of arms control is now in tatters. Enjoy the three infractions come your way. Iraq, anti-government protests happened in October 2019 and anti-US protests The CFE treaty was signed between European countries and Russia, whose main task was to avert a large-scale ground invasion by conventional means. their countries. Jon Alterman: According to Makdisi, that feeling of betrayal has led: Karim Makdisi: To a situation where the most junior diplomat atlet's saythe U.S. embassy in Lebanon, has to go around with armed bodyguards and can barely go get a cup of coffee at a cafe without getting permission from a thousand people in security. and Russia threaten the United States grand strategy to maintain its dominance that happened in January 2020 are the problems. At the same time, the United States, on the other hand, rejected the Russian stance. political environment enables the soil for terrorism to grow. Ask students to define "pros" and "cons." (Students might respond: pros are positive factors or reasons for something; cons are negative factors or reasons against something.) have discussed trade oil in Chinese yuan. New START limits the number of these systems each nation may possess (up to 800) and deploy (up to 700), as well as the number of warheads that can be mounted on them (up to 1,550). Jon Alterman: 9/11 was a turning point for the United Statesnowhere more so than its policy in the Middle East. For this to happen, Republican President George W. Bush announced an abrupt withdrawal from the Anti Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. Anne Patterson: What 9/11 did was focus everybody on counter terrorism, which necessarily focused them on security, so the security emphasis everywhere became the preeminent goalwhich meant a convergence of interest with the United States on fighting terrorism. Students recall what they know about pros and cons. I suspect they know even less about the rest of their population than we do. Accessed May 4, 2021. https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1998_05/bnmy98. Perhaps nowhere is this confusion more visible than in Syria, where the U.S. has struggled to identify its interests, let alone formulate a consistent approach to the countrys civil war, in part because it is actually several conflicts at once. They were happy to take advice on what I call the mechanics of electionsthe balloting, the polls, and the poll watchers, all of which is importantbut not on the broad democratization of their society. No, we don't have friends. The resumption of nuclear tests will weaken the arms reductions efforts but have more significant consequences for global climate actions. hide caption. The economic Fourth, military presence can secure United Challenging assumptions and asking questions are key. neighbors. Recklessly marches nation into war before trade and tourism sanctions can have any effect. Presidents and politicians have seen Israel as a like-minded strategic partner surrounded by adversaries, and the U.S. public has mostly agreed. Today experts no longer view the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a linchpin of stability or the starting point for policy discussions. such as Russia and China, from their own economic or security perspective, aims Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. Why its time to reconsider the U.S. strategy in the Middle East, in, Why a coherent U.S. strategy for stability in the Middle East may be impossible to find, in, Why the costs of the U.S. partnership with Saudi Arabia outweigh its benefits, in, How the shrinking U.S. role in the Middle East is bringing new power players into the mix, in. Ten or fifteen years ago, the U.S. would have jumped right in, said Brandenburg. War-weariness within the U.S. aligns with that approach of disengagement. Phone 1-917-740-9773. -However, hypersonics are different, and do not have a traditional ballistic trajectory. According to most experts, the missile efficiency is falsely exacerbated to create a hype of hypersonic missiles. Unlike the natural partnerships between the United States and fellow democracies, the ties between Washington and Riyadh were a marriage of convenience that discomforted both sides. Meaning though they found semi-agreement today, because hypersonic missiles arent codified in New START or other arms agreements, its inevitable that Russia or the US will break out and develop hypersonic missiles at greater numbers. territory to be used as a launching pad against its neighbors. The Middle East Institute is proud to host Aram Nerguizian and David Schenker for a discussion about the pros and cons of US support to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). To make sure you dont miss any episodes, you can subscribe to Babel on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Popular expectations about how to drive change are vastly different following the Arab Spring a decade ago. The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos. The Pros and Cons of Attacking SyriaA Symposium. It may be withdrawing at certain levels, but it doesn't mean that American influence is no longer there. [3] The term ABM system was defined in the Treaty as a system designed to counter strategic ballistic missiles or their elements in-flight trajectory. However, It does not directly limit the number of nuclear warheads either nation may possess, (largely because warheads are difficult to track and account for after a country has developed the ability to create nuclear weapons and in sizeable quantities). It does not engage in advocacy and its scholars' opinions are their own. to achieve goals. o the United States was battling Communism and was doing anything through wars and by other means to red scare advancement in the world. dramatically. At the same time, when U.S. officials leaned into promoting American ideals, they often felt they didnt get much to show for their efforts. Between 2006 and 2008, he was a public policy scholar when he wrote his fourth book, The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Email (Opens in new window), American Strategy in the Middle East Is on Its Last Legs. Kudos to Michael Ledeen for explaining that the road to Damascus starts in Tehran. Details. He is a Vietnam War veteran and a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. During the Arab Spring, she was ambassador to Egypt. See Media Page for more interview, contact, and citation details. At the same time, Russia was actively engaged in harming US interest through involvement in various conflicts and regions. Anne Patterson: Theres no place where they clash more than in the Middle Eastour values and our interests. He says that states in the region need a little breathing room to solve their own problems. Even taking the US presence in Afghanistan out of the picture, the United States positions numerous bases, Forward Operation Sites (FOS) and Cooperative Security Locations (CSL) and forces along the Gulf littoral, as well as in the eastern Mediterranean and along the Horn of Africa. Therefore, dealing with inequality is a key priority in moving toward greater political stability and democracy in the region, all the more so as inequality consolidates autocratic regimes and ensures the . I'm guessing no. New START limits apply to a weapon delivery vehicle that has a ballistic trajectory over most of its flight path., Ballistic trajectories are determined by a projectiles initial velocity and the force of gravity, which pulls the object down as it travels. This has raised the need for greater regional cooperation in South Asia. Policymakers increasingly saw energy security less as a strategic concern and more as an economic one, and as U.S. domestic energy production has risen, U.S. imports of Middle Eastern oil have dropped. This denuclearisation was perceived as an important milestone to avoid a second world war like situation. But Western intervention changed names over the years. Here are seven reasons why it's time to close them. High on his agenda was the prospect of a nuclear deal with Iran. Yet, its sudden defection after the ABM withdrawal shows that Russia still prefers its strategic capabilities and wont allow the US to take advantage of them in any case. Article 11. It is about the Bilateral Consultative Commission to raise any objection and find its resolution. 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