No policy can fully protect anyone from any nation/state who wants to launch an attack. The most recent example of this is with the attack on Paris, I only mention that at this time as it is the most recent terrorist act upon a peaceful nation. ISIS has their own agenda and there isn’t a policy in the world that could quell their actions, as they do not follow traditional rules of engagement.
ISIS follow the most ancient of writings from the Quran, like the old testament of the bible, there are things written that …show more content…
and the Middle East was limited prior to WWI, however there did exist commercial ties as early as the 19th century. President Jackson established formal ties in 1833 with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. This was the start of foreign policies. Policies were formed to shield the innocent from future attacks and to make peace treaties for the salvation of the United States (Journal of Political Studies, 2012).
The Historical context is that of religion, political footholds, oil, exports and imports. The United States and foreign policy in the Middle East has had a foot hold in history as early as the Barbary Wars in the first years of the U.S.s’ existence, thus is has become much more expansive after WWII (Journal of Political Studies, 2012). American policy in the time of the Cold War attempted to prevent the previous Soviet Union encouragement by giving support to the anti-communist movements. In doing so they backed Israel against Soviet-Sponsored Arab countries (Journal of Political Studies,