American Policy Towards Shiites in Iraq 2003-2014

Abstract

In this study, we find that the policy of the United States of America after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 focused on confronting the rising Shiite Islamic influence in the region due to its danger to its interests, especially the security of Israel, and the contradiction of Shiite Islamic thought with Western thought and ideology, so it launched the new Middle East project through which the axis of resistance is confronted ,and  its  leadership in Tehran and due to Iraq’s distinguished location and the majority of its Shiite population and the presence of the leadership of the Shiite Islamic world in the honorable Najaf, Washington found in it the appropriate base to launch this project towards both Syria and the rest of Iran’s allies around Israel, and Washington used the policy of smart power to allow Salafist terrorist organizations, which are the specific opposite of Shiite Islam to expand and spreading in the region with the support of Washington's Arab allies, then turning Iraq into a battlefield between terrorism and the Shiites, which is a proxy war against the axis of resistance as a means to achieve Washington's goals within the new Middle East project.