motives and methods of western enroachment in middle east?
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We enroach by sending various branches of our military over there.  Any of them and all of them then enroach there way on in to a country that isn't ours under whatever bullshit reason like protecting them as we slaughter them all.  I love that word enroachment, it fits what we do so very well. We enroached in Vietnam,  we enroached during the gulf war (and dont think I dont know that a lot of our young kids got enroached because of the older coachroachers like generals) we are still enroaching in Irag.  Thank you and bless you for that word. It's perfect, armies have always had a mindless insectile feel to them to me anyway. Never learn to spell your an inspiration!!!! (How would you spell Central Intelligence Angency?)
501312
Israel and the WEST have a symbiotic relationship.\nEverything Israel is doing is with support of the west. Israel is a strategic location, we need it to meddle with middle eastern affairs and Israel needs us for protection.
279132
It's been proven time and again that dictatorships don't work out for the west.  They have supported many of them in the past.  As part of their so called "cold war".  They propped them up to keep communism down.\n\nNow they've realised their mistake so they're trying to force west loving democracy on countries, which obviously can't work either.\n\nI think the number one consideration for the US is to be able to trade with a country.  So in that sense they would probably prefer a pro-west dictatorship.\n\nThe European's may be more inclined to let a anti-west democracy go ahead.  But I'm not sure there's such a thing at the moment.  Democracy and West are pretty much the same thing aren't they.\n\nps. I'm from Australia.  We gave kickbacks to Saddam Hussein just so we could sell some wheat.
799286
well like most people say oil may be the main reason but there is another factor also. to get new alliances and balance of power. in the Mid East, the west has Isreal and now (may be) Afganistan, Iraq (may be not), Saudi, Kuwait and neighbouring Pakistan. China is growing it's own power and in this new era, you can't be a powerful nation by standing alone. so that's what they are after i guess.
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The business etiquette in the middle east is no different than anywhere else in the world… they just don’t like to be rushed into things. You will need to be aware of the customs and if you are going to market your products anywhere in the world, it is a good idea to find a native partner who will help you in just about everything. You can visit their embassies in your country and you will get tons of information. There are lots of foreigners who live and work in the middle east, talk to someone from your own nationality who lived there.\nMeet people from the middle east and try to get to know them, you will be amazed with what you will learn… completely different than what the media had portrayed.
108937
The short answer is 'No'. I think it is hard to define what you put as "Anglo-American" powers.  Do you mean the West, or specifically England and the United States?  In any event, we must realize that neither the West nor the Islamic world is a monolithic entity.  There are widely varrying strains and currents throughout both.  From a strategic perspective, the US is unrivaled.  From an ideological perspective, there are ongoing shifts toward conservativism and fundementalism in both the West and the Arab world.  These shifts are largely reactionary to the rise of globalism.  Ultimately the historical trend toward openness and integration, driven by a global economy, will overcome zenophobic impulses in both the West and the entire Islamic world.
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what's going on in the Middle East can be boiled down to two words.....culture clash. Middle Eastern theocracy vs Western democracy. It's like mixing oil and water\nand quite frankly the confrontation is long overdue. 9/11 finally brought the long standing turmoil to flash point and I must say that I comment President Bush for meeting it head up and taking care of business as quickly as he did....to a Middle Eastern zealot, hesitation or an effort to compromise (Gore would have done both) only serves to confirm their suspicions of weakness....AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST!~
813991
IMHO, That was always the plan. The US would LOVE to have a stable base in the middle east to secure their oil supply, the silk road, (imports from China), and the drug trade. Opium has to be grown somewhere, and Big international companies need it to make legitimate pain medications.
484248
Terrorism acts committed around the globe, especially in Middle East are result of the International Relations system itself, which is mutually excluding and does not reflect the actual situation in the sense of power. To put it simpler, hegemon and its allies are multiplying their capabilities while other have no other option than to subvert to them and become "democratic".\nWhat is to be done? Take into consideration other nations' interests, not those who misgovern them, like Mubarak, Abdalla of Jordan, Saudi Royal family etc.
763516
The middle east peace conference in Madrid.The purpose of the conference was to serve as an opening forum for the participants and had no power to impose solutions or veto agreements. It inaugurated negotiations on both bilateral tracks and on multilateral tracks that also involved the international community. The Syrian and Lebanese negotiators agreed on a common strategy.\nThe first-ever public bilateral talks between Israel and its neighbors (except Egypt) were aimed at achieving peace treaties between the 3 Arab states and Israel, while the talks with the Palestinians were based on a 2-stage formula, the first consisting of negotiating interim self-government arrangements, to be followed by permanent status negotiations. (This formula was essentially followed in the later Oslo process.)
996935
Islamic countries have oil. Big transnational companies need oil so they bribe some western governments to produce lame excuses and terrorize the western public so that they can steal away oil, just like in Iraq.
336065
there are alot of countries responsible for what has happened in the middle east. Every western nation has had a hand in dividing up the middle east for either religion or oil. Isreal is only the most recent example. If we gave every country in the middle east the support we give Isreal, that would be a very different region today. \n\nThe cultural divide is the only thing I see that has stopped us. For instance, after 9/11 many groups were advocating that we lock up all muslims in the US in concentration camps because they are muslim. The people of the middle east's reaction to this attitude is what is causing the problems. They hate the way we think of them. \n\nWill there be another attack? probably. Will we hear about it? I hope not, but some politician will probably want to reap the political rewards of making us afraid despite what it would do to this country. Thousands of people die in the US every day. Terrorism is the least likely cause, and our government should recognize that.
1113825
Go to the middle east
671224
While not all terrorism emanates from the Middle East, the way things are today, the majority of it does.  \n\nAutocratic regimes (dictators, presidents for life, etc.) tend to breed poverty, dissent, and violence.\n\nIraq was not only brutal to its own people, but was providing itself as a staging area for terrorism.\n\nDemocracies do not attack each other.\n\nSo the United States gains:\n\n1.  The loss of a staging area for the terrorists\n\n2.  A democracy in an area without one\n\n3.  Possibly, the impetus to get the peoples of the surrounding countries to demand democracy for themselves
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Wikipedia has a fairly balanced article on the region.\nYour best bet would be to look up individual nations, the CIA factbook is actually pretty good (and surprisingly objective for a government source)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East\nhttp://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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You can find an article "U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives and Priorities in the Middle East and the Rest of the Globe" on US Foreign Press Center website >> http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/21564.htm. Going through this article you will get an idea.\n\n>>> Naveen Kumar
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The dominant social convention in the region is Islam.  This religion prevents the full acceptance of capitalism, which is the prevailing economic world view on Earth today.\n\nStrict adherence to certain Islamic tenets prevents the charging or paying of interest.  This prevents proper economic investment and participation in the modern world.\nIt also ensures unending conflict with the perceived cultural flaws with their Jewish and western neighbours.  \n\nThis is the Arab world's great folly, an unwinnable and needless conflict.  \n\nWithout investment, the Arab world relies on one resource, oil, which is controlled by elitist and greedy hypocrites with no real interest in Islam or the economic development of its people.\n\nThe perpetuation of an aggressive patriarchial society forces downtrodden women to remain so and prevents the full utilization of half the Arab workforce, futher rendering their economies uncompetitive.\n\nPride goes before the fall as the Christians say, and the proud Arabs are finding out how their proud adherence to an outmoded belief system (Arab culture in general, not just Islam) is removing them from relevance in teh 21st century.\n\nConsider this:  China has begun outsourcing jobs to Africa.  The next round of economic growth is going to bypass the Arabs again.  How bad is it when Africa's future looks brighter than yours?