Talk:United States foreign policy in the Middle East

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Weasel Wording

No foreign relations with Iran needs to be sourced. Weapons of mass destruction also needs to be sourced with actual historical proof of Weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia is NOT a newspaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_newspaper & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability --- This claim must have a reliable source. Orasis (talk) 06:11, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

Hello, Initially this article was to cover interventions made up until today. However,I have discovered that there seem to be a lot of other articles which cover the years after the Iranian revolution. Nevertheless, feel free to edit if you wish. Sophielaursen
I realise that I have not used the internet for a lot of my research. I therefore encourage people to name good and valid internet pages in an external links section. Sophielaursen

This needs more info!

Hello, I'm not an expert but I want to know about this topic so I looked on Google for <us in the middle east> and this was the top hit. It looked really promising, and has a ton of great info, however...

Why does't it mention Yemen? I keep hearing in the news about drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, etc. but this is absent from this article. Can an expert please help?? Guypersonson (talk) 21:07, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

please update!

Please update this page. There are so many more events that should be covered ! Why does it stop before 1979 > ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.58.249.58 (talk) 15:03, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Correcting this page for a POV

The scope and title of this page suggest a certain angle to American foreign policy in the Middle East that would be better served by simply changing this to "United States foreign policy in the Middle East," which I'm going to move it to. "Interventions" are certainly a part of that foreign policy, but give a skewed view (I'm not saying "for" or "against" the U.S., but in terms of a broader historical view) of what U.S. involvement in the Middle East is. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 20:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, this page exists more as an essay than a history of American foreign policy in the Middle East. I'm changing the titles of the headings and other things like that to better give a chronological flow of American foreign policy in the Middle East that is not so narrowly focused on a few events. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 20:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What this page is missing

There are a number of things that the page probably ought to include, at least brief summaries with links to the main articles—such as the following:

And so on. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 20:54, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What this page is missing is dates in the title. Someone should add "(1945-1990)" and leave it as it is. The ISIS thing is important as well....Ericl (talk) 13:04, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chomsky source

There are two quotes in the background section coming from Chomsky's article, but he doesn't seem to be citing anything specific. I don't necessarily doubt their truth but would be interested in seeing something more credible hereCestsibun (talk) 07:14, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Or for clarity to reference Chomsky explicitly in the articleCestsibun (talk) 07:16, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to remove "friendly" and "hostile" relations sections

Friendly and hostile as of when? According to whom? Relations with Turkey have been tense in the last five years, but not on the whole ... so why are they in the "hostile" section? I think it'd be better off closing these sections and moving anything important into other sections. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 01:52, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redundancy

What's the point of the word 'foreign' in the title? It's obvious that the ME isnt in the US. Konli17 (talk) 13:44, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

foreign policy is a widely used term. Garuda28 (talk) 14:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly is. But here it's redundant. Konli17 (talk) 14:40, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t think you’re going to find much support for removing what is one of the most common descriptions of this matter in the media and academia, if that’s your intent. Redundant or not, it’s what the sources widely say. Garuda28 (talk) 14:44, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some use 'foreign', some don't. I don't see why we follow the ones that do when we don't have to. Konli17 (talk) 14:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Foreign policy is more common in the sources I’ve seen and more specific. I do not support renaming this article or it’s title. Garuda28 (talk) 15:11, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There's zero need for specificity here. There is no United States domestic policy in the Middle East article, and it's doubtful there ever will be. Konli17 (talk) 15:14, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

'US Middle East policy' gets about four times as many hits as 'US Middle East foreign policy' on Google. Konli17 (talk) 19:51, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Start an RM if you want. I highly doubt there is consensus for such a move. Garuda28 (talk) 20:18, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

History

Nationalism:Middle East 41.115.109.137 (talk) 11:05, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Afghanistan and Pakistan removed

The section of these already clearly note that they are not Middle East but somehow makes its way into Greater Middle East. It should be noted that this article is about the Middle East, and anything else especially an ambiguous and unclear Greater region does not belong here. WR 22:01, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Edit-Israel

Hey Wikipedians, just wanted to leave a note to explain my edit.

The previous sub-title under Israel read "Genocide in Gaza," then mentioned the aid bill passed the house, and that's it.

Mainly I just wanted to change the title to something neutral and fact based, since the allegations of genocide are in the early stages and nothing has been proven yet. As for the description, I basically just re-wrote the original paragraph with up to date facts, and then added a little information about backlash and genocide allegations the US is facing.

I'm definitely missing some references (I quickly cross referenced with other pages then verified), I'm on mobile and didn't have much time, I just wanted to make it, idk, more acceptable to everyone after seeing the recent edits of genocide being added, then deleted and vice versa.

Thanks, sorry for any confusion MrWrightEsq. (talk) 03:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]