why?
2007-10-07 08:18:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
No. Our basic policy in the middle east is still the same today as it was on September 10, 2001.
2007-10-07 08:32:41 · answer #1 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The development of Saudi Arabia was. It went very well with the country becoming modernized with hospitals, garbage facilities, drinking water etc. American companies made many millions of dollars in the process. Oil money and capitalism at its finest. As that work ran out, there became a great need for another place to work those same deals. Iraq was identified well before 9/11 and a place of great opportunity: lots of money, an educated population and a western-like population relative to the rest of the Islamic world. (Iran had been until the overthrow.) Much of our current foreign policy was generated by the desire to overthrow Saddam and begin that prosperous building process in the Saudi Arabian model.
2007-10-07 08:32:48 · answer #2 · answered by Baccheus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it was a long needed wake up call, Islamist terrorists were around for a very long time before the current administration was even a thought, like the mid 70's and we ignored it, turned a blind eye, minimized it and just sort of made believe it didn't exist, (even after they bombed the WTC in 1993), we were asleep at the wheel. Well guess what, the terrorists were there and we sure as hell found that out on 9 -11.
2016-05-18 01:35:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't. It just changed the rhetoric from "fighting the spread of communism" to "fighting terrorism".
2007-10-07 08:26:25 · answer #4 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YA ,I think the [olicy remains same but violence action take place vigorously
2007-10-07 08:39:52 · answer #5 · answered by Subhankar G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋