The second cause is regarding the emerging developments throughout the Gulf War directly related to the US involvement in Saudi Arabia as a reaction to Iraqi use of scud missiles and Iraqi chemical and biological weapons. Iraq used scud missiles against Israel and Saudi Arabia during 1991 Gulf War. (Rogers, 2007:109) In that case, the attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia caused the Coalition Forces to destroy missiles launchers in Iraq and through this process, the US also suffered many losses as a result of missiles attacks. (Rogers, 2007: 110) On the other side, Iraq also used chemical and biological weapons against Iran and Iraqi Kurdish population in 1988. (Rogers, 2008: 34) Therefore, on the one side, the proliferation of such weapons spread …show more content…
In that case, the impact of the US power and deployment in the region have been felt more deeply. As aforementioned, Al Qaeda has led with 9/11 attacks as a revelation and the US has responded this by the declaration of the war on terror. However, the US war on terror has led to sharp consequences. In this respect, we can move on to the consequences the US war on terror. Within the scope of war on terror, the US had invaded many regions and continued its military operation with many countries in order to fight and prevent the Islamic fundamentalists. However, key Islamic terrorist groups reformed and the threats continued to spread in Middle East. As Rogers explained: The United States Western type of regimes wasn’t comprehensive, Taliban militias all returned to the Taliban as well as some of them got even stronger by the help of other countries, the insecurity increased dramatically with the escalation of the drug productions as heroin, …show more content…
In that case, it is clear that the war on terror has been used as a tool by the US to pursue its economic and political interest in Middle East. As a result, the war on terror triggers the rise of Islamic terrorist attacks and groups rather than cease them despite of many efforts and spent. After the Bush Administration, Obama have indicated that the US was no longer pursuing war on terror and started to focus on specific terrorist actions that threaten the US. His counterterrorism strategies are more transparent and ethical than Bush’s policies. Therefore, the US foreign policy more moderate becomes with leadership of Obama. Although, our world still fights against existing terrorist actions, especially in the recent days, the competition among states and their actions which are shaped in accordance with their interests have an important role on terrorist actions as in the Bush administration-led war on