The US and Conflict in the Middle East

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What happened during the Iranian Revolution of 1979?

How important a player in the Middle East is Iran?

What internal problems or issues is the country of Syria facing?

Why is the Middle East so politically unstable?

What is the significance of the assertion that the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction was blown out of proportion in influencing political policy.  

Make an argument that a solution to the Arab-Israeli dispute does not seem any more likely now than during the 1970s or 1980s.

How did the United States' actions in the Middle East during the 1970-80’s impact our foreign relations today with the region?

What is the main reasons of Iraq -Iran war

What are public and national interests of U.S. Military involvement in Afghanistan?

Our class has seen Our Own Private Bin Laden. If Afghanistan became the Soviet version of Vietnam, then Iran became a missed alarm to signal a new, third path to success through Islamism (as opposed to the path of American and Soviet alignment). This belief system, separate from Islam, sought to turn a religious faith into a fundamentalist political ideology built around its differences from Soviet and American world-views. It was an independent ideological alternative available to parts of the Global South that was not connected to the West. The seductive attraction of such an ideology and its promise of independence for parts of the Global South was not fully grasped by either the Soviets or the Americans in Iran and Afghanistan (or elsewhere). Compare and contrast the rise of Islamism in Iran and Afghanistan. Consider as well how each superpower reacted to its presence and combated the threat of Islamism to their respective political authority.

Why has the Arab-Israeli conflict been so persistent? What religious and cultural factors have contributed to the persistent state of unrest in the Middle East and, in particular, in what some people refer to as the Holy Land?      

Identify a consequence of the Iranian Revolution.

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is also increasingly about human rights. What are some current examples of this?

What are some solutions to bring peace to the ferment in the Middle East?

What was the Palestinian veiwpoint on the Jewish problem?

Did the Oslo Accords fix the relationship between Israel & Palestine?

Why were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq initiated by President George W. Bush considered mistaken wars?