Intervenția americană în Irak: o acțiune legitimă, dar plină de tare spinoase probleme
The American intervention in Iraq: a Legitimate Action, Fraught with Difficulties

Summary/Abstract: The following study starts with the presentation of the several meanings of the word “legitimate”. Then, the ideas of several authors belonging to the realist school (Hans J. Morgenthau and Martin Wight) are explored, in order to find out if, according to this strong and sound theory, the American military presence in Iraq is legitimate. As long as the core national interests of USA ask for such a military presence, it clearly is legitimate. The study states that, nowadays, United States of America have a better position – from the geo-strategic point of view – in the Middle East. This does not mean that the general situation in the region is to be evaluated as by far more stable; two significant and interesting Israeli professional opinions, which say that the entire Middle East is now very unstable, are quoted and commented. The study goes on with presenting and commenting several major problems USA, together with their allies, are confronted with, in direct correlation with the American military intervention in Iraq: the collateral damages & casualties; a total amount of manpower deployed in Iraq, smaller than the necessary one; and the evolution of the way in which the American public opinion accepts or reject war and American combat casualties.

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