THE FOREIGN POLICIES BY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CURRENT IN THE BUSH DOCTRINE

WAR ON TERROR

Abstract

The September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre was a milestone for geopolitics in the 21st century, being directly responsible for the emergence of the Bush Doctrine and consequently the War on Terror. This article will look at how the Middle East is seen as an enemy of the Western democracy, especially to North American interests. As researcher Amaral Batista Leite has shown, George Bush, through his speeches, created the Arab world with this terrorist persona, thus achieving a wide popular support for his War on Terror. The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, fraught with controversy, are the consequences of the disastrous American foreign policy of the early 2000s. According to data collected by the UK's House of Commons, millions of refugees and people in a state of vulnerability are the direct consequences of the actions of Bush and his peers, reflecting in nowadays the precarious and delicate situation of the Arab people.
Keywords: Bush Doctrine; War on Terror; Middle East.