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Submitted by Zaraxoxo on April 30, 2007
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The War on Terror
Foreign Policy is defined as a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives. Foreign policies generally are designed to help protect a country's national interests, national security, ideological goals, and economic prosperity. My subject, obviously dealing with national security, I chose not only because of the myriad of sources on the issue but also in part due to its origin. Not to mention that I am somewhat ignorant on the beginning of the war in Iraq and the only salve for ignorance is information. I will explain throughout this paper our relations with the Middle East, past to present, what’s been done, and my very valued opinion on the subject.
The War on Terror is an umbrella term used by the Bush administration to refer to the various military, political, and legal actions taken to stop the spread of terrorism. However it is vast religious, cultural, and economic differences that have led us to our current policies in the Middle East. For the most part conflict arose around 1967 towards the end of the Vietnam War. These stemmed from the U.S. and it’s determination to annex much or all of the territories it captured, obviously cause problems with the surrounding Middle Eastern areas. Although the situation remained unfriendly it also remained quite stagnant. Fast forward to 1983, Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Iraq as special diplomatic envoy for the Reagan administration. He went to restore diplomatic contacts severed in 1967 and to propose a business deal on behalf of America to build an oil pipeline from Iraq through Jordan. The Reagan administration saw Hussein as a crucial ally in the battle against radical Islam. Despite maintaining official neutrality in the bloody Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. had recently removed Iraq from its list of states sponsoring terrorism, loosened trade restrictions, and begun supplying Hussein with military intelligence in hopes of...
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