Iran Contra Scandal

Iran-Contra Scandal

  The Cold War peaked the interest of the entire globe.   Each threat, policy and action that took place had ramifications far more reaching then ever imaginable.   The world sat on edge because it feared its own destruction, after the introduction of nuclear warfare at the close of World War II, another World War could result in the Earth's demise.   This fear ran through the hearts and minds of citizens of both the United States and the Soviet Union, but it is the citizens elsewhere that had to pay the consequences for these fears.   The "race" to become the premier superpower of the world between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. did not always remain as subsided as many like to believe.   Many regions of the world were held accountable for fighting the ideological warfare that was to separate the two world powers.   One region that has always been very active with warfare since the beginning of time is the Middle East.   Fighting has remained one standard of living that many countries in the Middle East have come to live, and die with.   When the ideological war came to the Middle East, the primary target became Iran.   Iran held the largest wealth in the region at the time because of its proceeds from the sale of oil and the United States feared that the neighboring communist would attempt to take over Iran and then have additional funding and support.

            One of the most pivotal moments at the end of the Cold War was the Iran-contra Affair.   "The Iran-contra policies centered on two regions of the World which cast shadows of doubt on the public mind, and were difficult for the government to portray in positive terms; Central America and the Middle East.   Central America conjured up images of another Vietnam, of the United State being slowly sucked into an anti-communist third-world guerilla conflict for few tangible gains.   Iranian ventures revived memories of other foreign policy nightmares, most obviously the Iranian hostage crises of... [continues]

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