9/11 Foreign Policy
It is common today that the United States foreign policy has been inspiring to a lot of nations worldwide. It is argued by a lot of political scholars that the 9/11 terrorist attack actually shaped the United States foreign policy. Even though it is debatable to if the 9/11 attack did shape the United States foreign policy and how it did that can be discovered at the end of this essay. This will be proven by analysing a theoretical view of terrorism and a little background of what happened in September 11, 2001 and the United States foreign policy before the 9/11 attack followed by policies like the Bush doctrine, Obama doctrine and also looking at their criticisms. A realist perspective believes that the rise of terrorism was as a result
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Normally the work of every government is to protect their citizens from internal and external attacks but in this issue no one actually saw it coming at all for example if someone builds a house in my village for example and there is a mass attack maybe from armed robbers within that area on every single week; There might be an expectation from the citizens regarding the issue of security and it is now up to the government or the head of state to protect its members or to attack the base of this criminals without their knowledge or even when they least expected it to happen. From this case study it can be shown that there is a pattern of attack on the citizens it can then prompt the government to look for security based policies to make their citizens safe from both internal and external form of aggression and then it may become either a strategy or a form of policy using this case it is indeed obvious that the 9/11 attack prompted the United States president George W Bush to take a massive step towards tackling the issue on terrorism and not just about terrorism alone but by through other avenues that will help curtail or prevent such an attack from ever happening again and this ideology of his gave birth to one of the most historical policy of the United States known as the Bush
Normally the work of every government is to protect their citizens from internal and external attacks but in this issue no one actually saw it coming at all for example if someone builds a house in my village for example and there is a mass attack maybe from armed robbers within that area on every single week; There might be an expectation from the citizens regarding the issue of security and it is now up to the government or the head of state to protect its members or to attack the base of this criminals without their knowledge or even when they least expected it to happen. From this case study it can be shown that there is a pattern of attack on the citizens it can then prompt the government to look for security based policies to make their citizens safe from both internal and external form of aggression and then it may become either a strategy or a form of policy using this case it is indeed obvious that the 9/11 attack prompted the United States president George W Bush to take a massive step towards tackling the issue on terrorism and not just about terrorism alone but by through other avenues that will help curtail or prevent such an attack from ever happening again and this ideology of his gave birth to one of the most historical policy of the United States known as the Bush