...that the scarcity of our troops and the war in Iraq, combined with how each military branch spends their budgets are two main problems that this nation is facing. The United States military is one of the most influential forces in the world. Not only is the us military responsible for the protection of its homeland, but American forces are often called upon to provide peacekeeping and stability in crumbling nations or to provide humanitarian relief to countries that are in need. As a result, we have soldiers stationed all across the world, leaving our own country vulnerable. The United States spent almost 200 billion dollars on the Iraq war in the last year. The Untied States military budget in 2008 was close to 650 billion dollars and still more money was needed. The United States has been dubbed the “World Police” by other nations. We are the one nation that others come to when they are in need of help. We try to help in any way possible but when we do; our homeland is left open to terrorist attacks. The United States was rocked to the core on September 11, 2001, when two hijacked airplanes crashed the World Trade Center towers in New York City, and a third airplane crashed into the Pentagon. These terrorist attacks set the stage for the Iraq war. After the events of September 11th, President Bush stated that the “U.S. will hunt down and punish terrorists” (Gilmore). In 2003, President Bush sent 300,000 soldiers to Iraq to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction...
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...Nhan T. Pham Sociology 300 Introduction Less Developing Countries (LDCs) are emerging in the 21st century with the increasing role of new technologies, private investment that have led to the remarkable reduction in poverty. The Third World development in the future will likely be very different from what it has been in the past. Less Developing Countries are often unindustrialized, economically instable, have an underdeveloped political system and have high levels of human health. LDCs have changed and evolved over the years as we move into the modern age. The purpose of this paper is to examine two developing countries (Vietnam and Iraq). I will focus on the three major problems that the two countries are experiencing in today's world that include political, economic and human rights. Despite the country’s political differences, they share some similarities; though much of the philosophy has been debated, there are points of value to both countries. This essay intends to study some of their most painful discover in their political philosophy. Vietnam Political The North and the South were divided politically in 1954 because of different economic ideologies. Communist was in the North and capitalist in the South. Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary leader, who established the communist governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. Ho Chi Minh became president of Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969. He died in 1969. After the fall of Saigon in...
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...weaponry, which eventually led to selling their Sudan asset. Now, they’re debating whether or not they should enter into the Kurdistan region of Iraq, potentially knowing that the same thing could happen. KRG is asking for $220 million in exchange for allowing Talisman to search for oil reserves. The main question here is; will the KRG use the money on economic development or on weapons in order to force their independence from Iraq? With the experience on the board of directors, proper due diligence, and constant re-evaluation of the situation, Talisman should find it easier in discovering potential risks in Iraq, hence being pro-active in finding and solving issues before they arise. With this said, I feel that Talisman should enter Iraq. Problem statement Talisman Energy Inc. has had problems in the past when entering into politically unstable markets. They are now faced with a dilemma on whether they should or shouldn’t enter into the oil-rich Kurdistan region of Iraq. If they do decide to enter into this market, can they do it without facing the same problems they faced when they entered into Sudan? Analysis Talisman Energy Inc. is a company that has gone through a lot of scrutiny and has had a lot of experience doing business in countries with high political risk. In order to find out whether Talisman should enter Iraq or not, a few questions have to be answered, and information has to be analyzed and clarified. In retrospect, should Talisman have gone into Sudan...
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...1. SS Notes 7: Iraq-Kuwait conflict Causes of conflict Factors: Economic problems, oil production and dispute over territoryEconomic problems: Iraq had previously fought a war with Iran, which drained its reserves. As aresult, Iraq’s economy was severely weakened. Iraq also had debts to other countries such as the USand France. For example, Iraq owed about US$80 million in debts. Iraq thus had to find ways to payoff its debts and saw Kuwait as a potential solution. Thus the economic problems of Iraq are animportant cause of conflict between Iraq and Kuwait.Oil production: Iraq’s main source of income is through the sale of oil. Oil production wasmaintained by OPEC, to prevent a decline in oil prices. However, Kuwait ignored its quota, thus theprice of oil dropped from US$18 to US$7 per barrel. This loss of revenue for Iraq meant that it wasunable to pay off its debts through the sale of oil. This prompted Iraq to look for alternative ways tosettle their debts and looked to Kuwait as a potential solution. Thus oil production is an importantcause of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict.Territorial dispute: Some borders in the region were not well defined as both Iraq and Kuwaitinherited their borders from the British. There were thus clashes between the two countries as theyboth wanted certain territories for themselves. An example is the Rumaila oilfield. The Rumailaoilfield was shared between both countries as its borders were not clearly defined. However in 1990,Iraq claimed that Kuwait...
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...suffering they will not seek help. My question is why are most military troops less likely to seek help for PTSD? The mental health in our military troops is becoming more of a concern. It has been found that one in eight US soldiers returning home from either Iraq or Afghanistan has PTSD. The major problem occurring from this is soldier are for one reason or another not seeking any help for this issue. This problem has been going on for as long as there has been war. Fortunately our society is starting to understand the effects war has a a person and are paying more attention to this issue. It is important that our society pay more attention to this problem because their can be lasting negative effects if soldiers do not seek treatment. The short term effects of PTSD are sleeplessness, panic attacks, intense fear, nightmares, self destructive thoughts, and depression. The long term effects of PTSD are subsidence abuse, anger management issues, loneliness, and severe depression. In 2012 the military sent out a survey to military spouses and found out that over sixty percent of soldiers believed they have PTSD but will not seek help. The wives also provided explanations as to why they will not seek professional help for this problem. Some of the reasons are as listed. There are commanding officers that didn't think the soldier needed help for did not make the time readily available to seek help. Some soldiers are fearful of being labeled or excused from...
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...increased dramatically, especially religious racism. Religious racism in the Middle East is more than gender or race (1). Religious racism can be found more in country like Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon (1).However some other form of racism likes ethnic can be found in many Middle Eastern countries. Religious racism has started to occur in most of the Middle Eastern country, since the invasion of Muslims people to country like Egypt and Lebanon in the seventh century. When Muslims invaded these country all the people who lived at these country were Christian, so Muslims started to collect taxes from Christian and treat them like slaves. Muslim enforced Christian to change their religious to Islam if they didn’t pay these taxes or don’t like Muslims is treatment and rule. Now day, Christian in the Middle East doesn’t pay tax to Muslim but they get less job opportunity, face a lot of difficulty if they want built churches or make some renewal to a church. For example, in Egypt, Christian need to get permission from the president of the country to built churches and after getting this permission they face a lot of trouble from the city is government. On the other hand Muslim built their praying house Mosques without facing any problem; these Mosques is build by the government and all future expenses gets funded it by the government. Also the constitution of Egypt stated that, Egypt is an Islamic country that is...
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...John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "An unnecessary war," Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb 2003 In the full-court press for war with Iraq, the Bush administration deems Saddam Hussein reckless, ruthless, and not fully rational. Such a man, when mixed with nuclear weapons, is too unpredictable to be prevented from threatening the United States, the hawks say. But scrutiny of his past dealings with the world shows that Saddam, though cruel and calculating, is eminently deferrable. Should the United States invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein? If the United States is already at war with Iraq when this article is published, the immediate cause is likely to be Saddam's failure to comply with the new U.N. inspections regime to the Bush administration's satisfaction. But this failure is not the real reason Saddam and the united States have been on a collision course over the past year. The deeper root of the conflict is the U.S. position that Saddam must be toppled because he cannot be deterred from using weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Advocates of preventive war use numerous arguments to make their case, but their trump card is the charge that Saddam's past behavior proves he is too reckless, relentless, and aggressive to be allowed to possess WMD, especially nuclear weapons. They sometimes admit that war against Iraq might be costly, might lead to a lengthy U.S. occupation, and might complicate U.S. relations with other countries. But these concerns are eclipsed by the belief...
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...We’ve Gone Beyond Where We Should’ve Gone For years now the American people have been questioning what we have been fighting for in Iraq. Starting way back with our invasion in 2003, the Iraq War has now lasted for seven years, but for some reason the public does not truly know what is going on in Iraq or at this point why we are even there. The extent of most Americans knowledge of the war is what they see and hear from the media. The media is sheltering us from what is really going on by only showing the triumphs and none of the tribulations of the war. The successful soft rock artist Jack Johnson puts it best when he suggests that we just “sleep through the static”(songmeanings) Johnson’s song “Sleep Through the Static” exemplifies some of the problems Americans are facing with the Iraq War. He does this through his meaningful but sarcastic lines and catchy melody, making it in my opinion a good text. A good text takes on its own meaning for everyone, which is the beauty of having the opportunity to define what I feel a good text is. To me a good text not only needs to be something you can enjoy but also something that you can interpret and find a new meaning every time you come across it. A good song can be hard to define. A song is an art form in which the artist has the opportunity to express their opinion, and potentially influence others. Most people on the surface view a good song to be one that sells a lot of records, is played on the radio a lot, or one in which...
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...Iranian people are a proud people. They are a well educated population, relative to their neighbors. Many Iranians don’t follow the naive "either you are with us or against us" paradigm. They may lean heavily to the West culturally; but, their politics will be that of a proud and independent Muslim state...no longer a state that serves as the lapdog of the US...and who could blame them. I am sure you already know of the US CIA's history of interfering in Iranian politics. Iran is the only country operating a nuclear power plant that does not belong to the 75-nation Convention on Nuclear Safety, negotiated after the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl which contaminated wide areas and forced about 160,000 Ukrainians from their homes. One problem is that Iran's nuclear regulatory authority, INRA, is not considered independent by the IAEA because it is contained within the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Iran's nuclear agency, Lyman said. The nuclear program of Iran was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program.[1] The participation of the United States and Western European governments in Iran's nuclear program continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran.[2] Iran's nuclear program has included several research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities that include three known uranium enrichment plants. [5] In November 2011, the International Atomic Energy...
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...Home Front Wars Veterans are facing Home-front Wars Veterans are facing “Land of the free, because of the brave.” July 4th, 1776 America was founded and presented with the red, white, and blue colors of the flag. Red symbolizing hardiness and valour, white meaning purity and innocence, while blue signifies vigilance, perseverance, and justice. Since the beginning of time there have been wars fought to protect the United States of America. Although the wars advance in time when veterans return home to get treated for physical and mental wounds these heroes often do not seek medical attention. The veteran affairs hospitals and administrations have not been updated for several years in Louisville, Kentucky. The plans to build a new Veterans’ hospital by 2023 is in the stages of congress as of today and will cost approximately $883.2 million dollars according to Rep. John Yarmouth (Vanderhoff, M Nov 2014). Instead of building a new hospital which cost that much money wouldn’t the veteran affairs and staff get modern technology, a better record keeping system, pay veterans’ waiting on disability, and improve the structure of the Veteran hospital in Louisville. Are veterans getting the help and support they are needing after returning from combat as the wars draw down? There has been several speculations and concerns with our veterans returning home facing home-front wars in regards to the Veteran Affairs and their hospitals. Veterans have been put on a so called “waitlist...
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...Problem The problem that Talisman Energy Inc. is facing are the risks that they will face coming into Iraq, and dealing with the Kurdistan Regional Government. Talisman Energy Inc. will have to deal with KRG not knowing how they will act with the money that Talisman Energy Inc. will give them. Analysis The first thing that worries Talisman Energy Inc. is that they don’t know if KRG will use the money on economic development or to buy weapons. If KRG uses the money to build the economy then this will make Talisman Energy Inc. look like they helping a good cause which will help bring up the value of their stocks and make them grow. But if KRG uses the money for illegal purposes such as buy weapons. This news will make Talisman Energy Inc. look like if they support violence in the Middle East, which will bring uproar in the region. This will also make Talisman Energy Inc. look like they support Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. If it actually came to pass that KRG was found actually spending money on weapons of mass destruction. Talisman Energy Inc. stocks would drop significantly and ruin the reputation of Talisman Energy Inc. Although Baghdad gave complete autonomy to KRG, they might still need to overrule these purchases of weapons. For other international NGO communities they will need to come in to stop KRG from continuing to purchase weapons and will ask KRG to safely destroy these weapons. This scandal would really damage the reputation of Talisman...
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...Instruction on the Group Project Principles of Management Each project group is expected to collectively write a case report that focuses on an ethical issue faced by a real-life organization, a specific industry, or a business profession. Following is a suggested outline for the case written by your group: I) Background Information (e.g., corporate history) II) The Central Ethical Dilemma(s) III) Alternative Ways to Deal With the Ethical Dilemma(s) IV) Possible Consequences and Implications of Alternative Solutions V) Ethical Theories That Are Applicable to This Case VI) Key Questions for Case Study When writing this case report, you are encouraged to gather as much relevant information as possible from various online and offline data sources. However, all the information used in your case analysis must be properly cited in the main body of your report, including the author name(s) and publishing date/year, if available, and the detailed citations must be included in the References section. Your case report will be graded on the following criteria: 1) Proper application of ethical theories 2) Quality of writing (readability, originality, grammatical correctness, etc.) 3) Breadth of information utilized (at least 20 different articles or books need be cited and actually used in writing this case) 4) Demonstrated critical thinking skills 5) Robust logical reasoning 6) Comprehensive data analysis (i.e. taking into...
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...Eli Kronenanker U.S. Politics M W 7:30 PM Richard Fox I believe the biggest political problem facing the United States today, is lack of equal education. We are constantly told that all education is equal. However, this is obviously not true. On the basic level, there is a clear distinction between private and public schools. Primarily this is easy to see in the middle and high school level. Since public education is free, and private is not the economically privileged can afford to send their children to private school, with smaller classes, bigger salaries for teachers, and a more academically based curriculum. Private schools also focus on college level studies, with more homework and the like. Public schools tend to focus more on rules and keeping everyone in line. This is more prevalent in poorer areas. In public schools, there is a lack of equality, because, even though taxes pay for schools, the schools in wealthier neighborhoods get more funding, because more tax money is being paid. I believe this is the biggest problem in the U.S., because it allows us to continually divide our classes, and have generations stay in the same place. If someone goes to a public school, in a poorer area, they are not going to acquire the proper academic skills, to really be prepared for college. They will not receive grants, or have the proper skills to get the kind of financial aide needed. Typically their parents won’t have the money to send their child to college,...
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...brutality, mass extermination of races and intolerable atrocities on innocent civilians. All rules are kept on the backburner and what matters is victory or defeat. The 21st Century has seen the development of weapons, controlled by computerized systems, with pin-point accuracy and a million-fold increase in powers of destruction compared to our previous wars. Weapons and tactics have undergone total transformation in the last millennium but no deterrent has managed to quell human conflict. It may look totally different has managed to quell human conflict. It may look totally different for the war-mongers but no the common man it gives the same results – death and destruction. The totally of wars since 1945 right from Nagasaki and Hiroshima to iraq and Afganistan continue to grow without respite. The irony of the new millennium is that improvement in technology and scientific advancement have given us more options, leaving us with our major drawback, our primitive human failing – the fear of the other. The core reasons for fighting wars are about proving superiority, hegemony, competition for dominating the region or the world and for economic survival. The recent wars, to preserve the efficacy of the democratic system, may be a phase which is temporary. The US military historian and analyst Colonel Macgregor states this explicitly, “We did not fight Hitler just because he was a Nazi or the fight against Stalin was not because he was a Communist.”...
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...THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUE CURRENTLY FACING MANAGEMENT OF AIRSTAR INC. University of Maryland Organizational Theory, MGT 610 6 October, 2008 The most critical issue currently facing management of Airstar Inc, in my opinion, is lack of effective communication and efficient organizational structure. The nation’s current economic standing is requiring companies to remain extremely competitive in order to survive and without effective communication and efficient organizational structure many fall apart. I chose this topic because companies are suffering as is evident through reports of huge job cutbacks and closings of several stores and manufacturing plants. The economic standing of the United States has changed drastically within the last year due to varying factors such as the War in Iraq, heavy natural disasters and unethical practices from major financial institutions. All these significant factors combined are causing businesses to experience huge burdens just trying to maintain simple day-to-day operations. It is vital for a business to have effective communication and efficient organizational structure in order to succeed. Airstar Inc. must use this crucial time to analyze their business practices and organizational structure, streamline operations and come up with ways to increase productivity. Management has to ensure that everyone within the company understands the company’s goals and is willing to work together to accomplish those goals...
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