The United States Foreign Policy - 975 Words

The United States Foreign policy in the Middle East Since the United States became the world’s sole superpower, the Middle East has been seen as the most troublesome region in the world by US politicians. This view emanates from all the conflicts going in the Middle East that have the potential to threaten numerous strategic interests for the united Stated such as oil, terrorist, and Israel. Yet Middle East has never seen as problematic as it is now due to the excessive flux of problems the Middle East is struggling with. This increasingly conflicting nature of the region demands the US policymakers to reevaluate American policy in the Middle East to secure US interests. Unfortunately, American policy in the past three decades toward the†¦show more content†¦In the Persian Gulf, Britain protected Saudi Arabia and the other small states in the Arabian Peninsula especially when they became oil producers. British paid Jordan’s bills, supplied, and ran the army during 1950s’. London backed North Yemen to comb at the rising threat of Egypt in the Arabian Peninsula to Iraq’s designs on Kuwait. British view of the region was not the favorite to Americans. The United States prevented France and Britain from overthrowing Gamal ‘Abd al-Nasser in 1956. In part for that reason, when Britain announced its withdrawal from â€Å"East of Suez† in 1971, Eisenhower Administration was reluctant to their place. The United States tried to invest into regional proxies primarily Israel, Iran, and Saudi Arabia to serve protecting Western interests in the region. But in 1979, Shah of Iran was overthrown and replaced Ayatollah Khomeini. The threat his revolutionary Iranian state posed to American allies across the region led the United States to become militarily involved in the Persian Gulf for the first time, a commitment expanded when Iran’s defeat (with American assistance) in the Iran-Iraq War created the opportunity for Saddam Hussain to invade Kuwait and pose a threat to the region’s vital oil exports. Indeed, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, George Bush Administration tried to eliminate some of the region’s problems perpetually by military