Changing USA's foreign policies in the Middle East region

Today the terms called "Near East" and "Middle East" have come to be used interchangeably, but generally the term with Middle East ; considered to states consist of the independent countries of Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, and lying along the coast of Arabian Peninsula. And this area, for American policymakers has often been a headache, sometimes a nightmare, and each president has applied his own policy for the Middle East from Truman to Bush. The United States has five fundamental interest in the Middle east: Oil of the region, especially the Arabian peninsula; The survival and security of the state of Israel; Preventing the other powers from dominating the area; Preventing, or at least managing, the spread of WMD and the fulfillment, so far as possible, of certain principles, including the peaceful settlement of international disputes, the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, and the right of peoples to self-determination. Each one of these interest, taken alone, gives the United States a vital concern with the future of the Middle East; taken together, and considering as well the extreme volatility of the unresolved Arab-Israel conflict, they make the Middle East the most important single region in the world from the standpoint of American interest- and the most dangerous. This thesis has sought to understand the complex and, at times, bewildering policy of USA on the Middle East, in particular, towards the policy of Israel, oil and The Gulf War. XVIII