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physical liquidation 7 of the leaders of the above-mentioned countries if
necessary, or applying the Iraqi scenario in those countries.
The statement of the US President’s National Security Advisor, C.
Rice made on May 17, 2004, too sheds lights on the content of the new
American concept and that is: for nearly 60 years the USA had been per-
ceiving diff erent dictatorships, including that of the Near East, within the
frame of the format “though dictatorships, yet stable”. And according to
Rice, versus to which the USA received Bin Laden with Al Qaeda and
September the 11 th of 2001. Consequently, according to Rice, availability
of such dictatorships was no longer tolerable. Then, as an example, Rice
recalled the policy of the fi rst Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic
of Germany, K. Adenauer after World War Two that was anchored on the
very democratic values which thereafter ensured prosperity for Europe.
Rice emphasized that the United States would try to realize such a pro-
gram in the Middle East too. 8
Thus, through the American concept of “The Great Middle East or the
Middle East Reconstruction”, the United States made an attempt to trans-
form the Arab world shaping it into pro-American “friendly democratic
administrations” 9 that by no means would hinder the world possessing
strategy of the USA in that region too.
In March, 2003, Bush initiated the “Liberty to Iraq” military action in
Iraq, which as we have already mentioned was the fi rst phase of the im-
plementation of the new American concept. 10
To be fair, it should be noted that despite the collapse of Saddam’s re-
gime by the launch of the military operation in Iraq, in reality, however, a
chaotic situation was created in the country. 11 That was the reason that the
concept of the «Middle East Reconstruction» with its “democratization
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“Middle East: Sentenced to Destroy,” Newsland, May 28, 2012, http://newsland.com/news/
detail/id/964928/ (accessed November 20, 2010).
Cofman Wittes, “The New U.S. Proposal for a Greater Middle East Initiative: An Evalua-
tion.”
“The Arab Spring: Implications for US Policy and Interests,” Middle East Institute, January
13, 2012, http://www.mei.edu/content/arab-spring-implications-us-policy-and-interests (ac-
cessed December 25, 2017).
After phasing out from the Arab-Israeli confl ict of Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994, Syria
and Iraq remained as opposing countries against Israel. For the United States, the Syrian is-
sue was more complicated; therefore it started the “Reconstruction” process from Iraq with
the aim of creating a so-called pilot “regime democracy” in the country; See: K. Gajendra
Singh, U.S. Guided reconstruction; Conrad C. Crane, Andrew W. Terrill, “Reconstructing Iraq: in-
sights, challenges, and missions for military forces in a post-confl ict scenario,” Army War College
(U.S.), Strategic Studies Institute, (February, 2003), http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffi les/
pub182.pdf (accessed December 25, 2010).
“US Attack on Iraq in 2003: Violation of International Humanitarian Law,” The Peace
and collaborative Development Network (PCDN), https://pcdnetwork.org/blogs/us-at-
tack-on-iraq-in-2003-violation-of-international-humanitarian-law/ (accessed February, 25
2017).
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