The War Conflicts In Iraq

The war conflicts in Iraq

Introduction

This work will talk about war conflicts in Iraq, it is a very important issue in international life such as war, we try to publicize the situation of instability that Iraq has made a country marked by war, terrorism andcorruption. Iraq does not have a good relationship with its neighboring countries, which has caused multiple dislikes and problems between them. Trying to understand the inclination of the evolution of the war phenomenon is a difficult mission, it is something risky to make assumptions that if there is an evolution of violence and organized conflicts.

Innovations, technological and scientific advances have contributed many benefits in interpersonal communication, but have transformed the essence of war, increased their lethality, severity and scope.

Developing

Iraq is a country rich in natural resources, oil, natural gas, sulfur and agricultural products. In the latest registered macroeconomic data, Iraq despite being a country rich in natural resources, its population lives precariously and carries a truly low quality of life. Above all this, society must challenge terrorist confrontations daily, the victim count is very high, instability has become the norm and tensions between the various ethnic groups are increasingly.

One of the most important interstellar conflicts that the country has is the Kurdish conflict, which had its origin from World War I. For a long time, Iraq is already marked by violence, corruption, deaths, confrontations, destruction and its future is now unreal.

Iraq, which has been called "world capital of terrorism", is a country marked by years of struggle and conflict. The Republic of Iraq is in the tenth position of the 2017 failed states index that prepares the Paz Fund every year, which analyzes a total of 178 countries. This classification gives us an idea of the difficulties and conflicts facing this country and its population.

Iraq is a country in southwest Asia with borders to the north with Turkey, south with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and east with Iran and west with Jordan and Syria. Relationships with their neighbors in recent decades have been very complicated. Between 1980 and 1988 Iraq faced Iran and in 1988 Iraq invaded Kuwait, causing the intervention of an American coalition with Saudi Arabia.

This last situation fueled the closure of the borders and the end of bilateral relations between Iraq and Saudi and Iraq and Kuwait. Saudi Arabia has started a bilateral approach process with Iraq in September 2017. Iraq currently faces conflicts within its borders;In the country itself, its borders are also unstable, especially the border with Syria, due to the civil war that the country has ravaged since 2011.

What are they?

The word "war" denotes that something is relative to war. The war conflicts in their technical sense are those serious conflicts, fights, differences, disagreements, struggles or clashes, in which two or more relatively massive human groups, societies or nations, face violently, through the use of weapons ofall kinds, obtaining collective deaths and immaterial damage.

This war can also be considered as a conflict between an advanced military technology put at the service of a security doctrine and the world’s popular opposition to that political strategy. This opposition is evidenced in very different and even contradictory phenomena, highlighting: global terrorist networks-in them Al-Qaeda is more an identification symbol than an operational structure;The latent revolt between the popular sectors of the Islamic world – is notorious the reaction to the permanent humiliation they perceive from the West – and world public opinion, particularly in Europe and the United States, which can be mobilized against a unilateral war, made without consensus of consensus ofThe United Nations. (Stánganelli, 2009)

Causes

These armed confrontations are usually with the purpose of controlling natural or human resources, demanding a disarmament or imposing some type of tribute, ideology or religion, subjecting, stripping and, where appropriate, destroying the enemy, in what could be reached frequentlyto the genocide.

War conflicts have multiple causes, in which the maintenance or change of power relations are usually resolved, settling economic, ideological, territorial disputes, etc.

World War I can be considered as the milestone from which it was considered that the first victim of an armed conflict is the truth.

The Iraq war, which began with the US occupation in 2003, altered the mastery of the Sunni minority over the Shiite majority that ruled since 1921. Since Sadam Hussein was executed in 2006 Iraq rushed to destabilization. The general elections that have taken place in the country since the war, held in the years 2005, 2010 and 2014, have occurred with numerous irregularities.

All this has contributed to the fact that, since 2014, the conflict with the Islamic State has crossed the borders to Syria. However, Prime Minister Al-Abadi announced the end of the War against Daesh on December 9, 2017.

The denunciations of human rights violations in Iraq are constant by organizations such as Amnesty International and even the UN.

The civilian population is affected by the terrorism of Al-Qaeda and Daesh constantly, especially in Mosul. The figures of recent years are inaccurate, as the latest official data is 2013, before the war against Daesh, and encrypt the number of victims in 9.500. The situation of crisis and intermittent war since 2003 make Iraq one of the largest refugee issuers with around three million people flee. (Àlvarez, and others, 2018)

The causes of the current crisis are deeper and more complex: there is an interaction between geostrategic, economic, cultural, ethnic and religious issues that are questioned. Not always the immediate and obvious reasons publicly wielded as causes that explain the outbreak of a war conflagration are the certain. Many times they can be just justifications. What is true invariably is that in almost all wars there are global objectives that refer us to the struggle for power worldwide;Such objectives, which are the true reasons of wars, are not always obvious.

It should be clarified here that this feature is present even in the wars that have as motivation the defense of strictly national interests, but it is clearer in the wars promoted by the major powers, that is, those that have imperialist aspirations where national interests arepresented as universal interests and where the one who attacks holds the advantage – and does not accept any question – of its economic, political and military superiority. (Valqui, 2005)

Perspectives of great powers

Iraq was invaded by the United States, it was a military action to achieve control of the oil resources of the Arab Nation and to expand its geostrategic position in the Middle East.

The presence of Iraq is still a patent, now acts as the engine of political processes in Iraq. The interests of the great powers, Western Europe, Russia, Japan, the United States and China, to maintain a scheme of balance and relative power, also, stability in the Middle East, which allows them to access globalization in the best competitive conditionspossible. In addition, there is the interest of Iraq, to evade confrontations and conflicts, to avoid the possibility of mass destruction in its territory that would delay its development again.

Iraq is the main scenario to witness the clash of the economic and security interests of the United States and Iran and as that affects another country, although it is a country very dependent on foreign powers for its economic stability and security, among them there areto the United States and Iran, which are the strongest, like others such as Turkey, some Gulf States and European countries. The competition and rivalry of Iraq’s external support paralyzes everyday operations and their policy.

The United States fears a new conflict between its allies in the region, the Kurdish and Iraqi forces, since it has been supporting both.At present, the country is divided into three regions: the southern zone, governed by a Shiite majority;the northern zone, controlled by the Kurds;And the center, where is the Islamic State. This division is generating even more tensions.

Well, Iraq has become a chaotic state, despite democratizing attempts and the inclusion of marginalized minorities. Terrorist attacks are daily, the victim count is very high, instability has become the norm and tensions between the various ethnic groups increase.

It can be considered that Iraq is a country that was artificially unified: the borders of the Iraqi nation were established without taking into account the different social groups that lived in the territory. The tribes are very different from each other and there was no awareness of unity among them at the time when the country was unified. For all this, Iraq can be described as a failed state. There are high crime rates, very high corruption, armed groups that directly challenge the authority of the State, etc. According to the failed states index, Iraq is in the eleventh place (àlvarez, and others, 2018)

JUSTIFICATION OF WAR 

For most people and more the victims of these clashes, there is no justification for a war, for its consequences, but if the benefit of the victors is seen, justification could be considered. In the practice of war civilizations have been developed and they have also disappeared.monuments, sculptures, walls, myths, legends, cultures, heroes have been built.

In most of them, war is considered as a common element. The one that war is an activity that relates us in time and space. The war brings with it human and material losses, people are dominated by fear, also, the soldier who participates in it, is not the pleasant or easy mission, even if it is part of the winning group.

War also brings benefits for many people, usually nations. History has shown us that the states in which we live, institutions and even their laws are due to multiple conflicts, often massacres. This is reality, it would be very strange that human conquests, regarding territory, culture, knowledge, etc., would have been obtained peacefully.

War has a tragic sense, causes emotions and feelings found in us, the best expression has been art and literature. In the war there is a face, the most human of all, man is unknown and found, denigrates and exalts.

So important is the presence of war in human life, as attempts to give an account of it. A solution lies in making reaffirms in making war one more aspect of a higher order, in which, the damages caused can find a rational justification;You can do what is normally bad judged, because there is a rationality that generates a balance, such as killing, raping, etc. But it is very difficult to try morally a war, this case influence religious aspects.

The main battlefield are the media and among its objectives are the justification of the opinions and decisions of the states part in the contest, the conquest of public opinion and the transmission of the feeling of success to raise the moral of theFighters. (Stánganelli, 2009)

Conclusions

The consequences are very serious, when these war conflicts are live, children, men, disabled elders, sick and above all the violation of the rights of all victims of these war conflicts.

The war also causes serious mental health damage (traumas, fears), both soldiers and civilians are difficult for themthat end to break, this is a nightmare that is constantly repeated. The anguish is lived at every moment, as it is with the aviators, when they are attacked while flying, they suffer breakdowns in flight.

Millions of refugees flee from Iraq, the population is desperate, it is not nice to be in a country with permanent war. Among other consequences of multiple war conflicts in Iraq we have the destruction of wildlife, damage to the ecosystem, biodiversity, habitats, the environment.

For the destructive impact of consecutive wars and the absence of effective rehabilitation plans, Iraq’s atmosphere is hard. As general features we highlight that temperatures can fall below 0º C in winter and exceed 55º C in summer;Dust storms, which can reduce visibility and prevent the passage of airplanes, occur frequently during spring;And finally, intense fog, often lasts several hours and is common in winter.

Some of the consequences of the bad environmental situation in Iraq can be observed in: The loss of an exodus area for birds that migrate from Eurasia to Africa, the probable extinction of several species of endemic plants and animals of wet areas such as swamps, greater salinity of the soil, which results in the loss of the production of many basic products such as milk, fish and rice, the desertification of thousands of km2 and the intrusion of salt water in the territory. (Álvarez, and others, 2018)

As long as there are economic, political, cultural and social inequalities in the international community, it will be impossible to stop this type of war conflicts.