How long has the US been meddling in the Middle East and why?

Question

I remember watching the news one evening with my grandpa when I was a little girl. They were showing innocent people being slaughtered. I don't remember exactly where it was but I thought it was terrible and I asked my grandpa why didn't our president, which was Eisenhour at the time, do something about it. He said the US didn't mess with those people because it was the holy lands and religious wars weren't any of our business. Was grandpa right?

Answer 1

Well, Middle East has been in turmoil for over the past 3,000 years due to Moses and the Jews taking the Promised Land away from the Muslims at that time. So that is what causes the hatred between Muslims and Jews. If you remember a couple or so years ago Muslims tried to take it to court instead of war by using information from the bible concerning the land being "stolen". But back then land was always taken by conquering, so it is not different than any other kingdom that fell due to lack of defending it and defeating the conquerers.

Nowadays, it is just about the same really, but thing is, is these terrorist Muslims of today are politically driven and just want to take complete control. And ever since we helped Israel when they were being bullied by just about every Middle East country there is, that is when they began to hate us. Ever since the 1970s is when we have had a glimpse of international terrorist attacks pretty much started with the U.N. hostage crisis and the hijacking of a plane in Greece taken to Beirut. President Carter did not help any when he got rid of the Iran leader during his Presidency. That is why Iran is the current terrorist boiling pot it is today. And also is why there is a terrorist in Iran Presidency too. Ahmadinejad was apart of the U.N. hostage crisis, not to mention other missions before and after that as well. Now he is Dictator of Iran wanting nuclear warheads.

The only way to really clean up the Middle East is by war and killing the terrorists. They are modern day Nazis. In fact, Muslims had roles in WW2 and one by the name of Amin Al Husseini would meet with Hitler on numerous occasions and they discussed the destruction and death of the Jews.

Eisenhower at the time was right due to the fact it wasn't as bad as it is today regarding Middle East problems. But now it has escalated since the 1970s and very much needs to be dealt with.

Answer 2

I believe a extra significant query is why western civilization has been meddling within the Middle East. The crux of the obstacle is that Jerusalem is the hub of 3 separate religions that affect the field generally. Another well query to contemplate: How lengthy has the Middle East been meddling within the US and why?

Answer 3

1. The trouble started with the peace thready of Versailles in 1919, when the USA (Woodrow Wilson) drew an artificial border around three enemy fractions, the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis, such creating today's Iraq (Accidentally, he set the stage for the Vietnam war too, but that's another story). Continuous support of the wrong dictators and payed revolts, specially after 1945, made Iraq into a pressure cooker and so the entire middle east.
2. 1895, the Jews announced to the world, they wanted their own country. Nobody listened. In 1943, it was clear, that they wanted to take Jerusalem from the British. The British, under pressure from Roosevelt caved in and let them have it.

Answer 4

Briefly and since you probably don't want a longwided historical dissertation,a simplistic reply to your question would be..since they took over where (they forced) the British to leave off doing so. After the second World war when they had the ability to enforce this sort of thing.
Your grandpa was very right in what he believed to be the correct approach but mistaken in thinking that we were not already ¨getting mixed up¨. Unfortunately,we were!

Answer 5

We've been involved there ever since after WW2, when we feared Soviet influence in that area, especially with the oil that we wanted from them. The Soviets supported some dictatorships there, while we supported other dictatorships and monarchies as part of the worldwide chessgame for influence that we played with the Soviets during the Cold War. We overturned a democracy in Iran in 1953, and our interference over there really picked up in 1973, when we began supporting and suppling Israel in its struggles against Soviet sponsored Arab countries.

Answer 6

Moses and Jews did not take land from Muslims. Muslims were not even around until Islam was born in 610 A.D, long after the Israelites defeated the Canaanites and took their Promised Land.

Answer 7

I'm not suggesting this is the only, or even the oldest, form of meddling. However, the economic policies, motivated by oil, go back more than 50 years.
-- The Roots of Radical Islam
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27b/067.html

Answer 8

I think we started meddling in that part of the world back in the late 50's, right after the British and French left. Of course they were the ones that screwed it up (partitioning and all).

Answer 9

nope
winston churchill after world war 1 divided up the region

there was iraq, kuwait, iran, syria, etc. borders churchill set up


and israel after ww2

your grandfather might be right about military involvement, but politically english speaking people have been involved over there since we figured out they had oil and we had a profit in selling cars

Answer 10

I've heard it goes back some 28-30 years myself. I couldn't give your a definitive answer though.