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Iraq Ethical Issues
A great argument is now present in the media about supporting the American invasion of Iraq. Is it really ethical to support such an invasion of a country?
This paper will discuss the facts starting up from political facts leading into ethical ones.
To start, we must first know that when we deal with an issue in an ethical or, to be more general, philosophical way, we should consider the issue is it should be not as it is. Meaning that, if we consider what is going has a wrong origin, then we must not consider our dealing with the consequences ethical or not.
Let’s start with some facts. * Around 2 million people were killed in Iraq since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. * The American invasion of Iraq allowed the interference …show more content…
The American invasion gave these terrorists an undercover called the resistance. What I am saying here is not accusing all the resistance of being terrorists rather than trying to explain the point of view some might have. Some of these groups are committing genocides and killing a lot of people just for them being from another sect or ethnic group. But let us deal with the current situation. In such a case, is supporting the American invasion to Iraq considered ethical? Dr. Bashar Haydar in his article in the Lebanese Hayat titled “supporting the American invasion of Iraq is a moral duty” considers that supporting the American forces is ethical and is the moral thing to do. According to him, the resistance has nothing to do except ruining Iraq and increasing the amount of violence. He considers that Iraqi people should take the Japanese and German way of dealing with subject. Assuming that the Americans have nothing to do with the case, they are so innocent and they have no role in nurturing these aggressive movements and nurturing the sector and ethnic fights, which I predict to be false. After all these assumptions, what I would like to clarify is that the Iraqi situation has two totally different circumstances. The first is that Iraq is not like the Nazi Germany and its ally at that time Japan, Iraq is in the position of defense …show more content…
Iraq is now considered a poor country even though it has the second greatest amount of black gold, oil. Its exports of oil have incredibly decreased because of the American and terrorist attacks towards the Iraqi petroleum constructions. These attacks caused a lot of loss Iraq could have benefited from especially in the previous period where the price of oil was extremely
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