September 11, 2001, and the subsequently announced Global War on Terrorism severely altered the security environment in Afghanistan and Iraq, which in turn resulted in domestic Islamist terrorism that Europe had not yet experienced. Under Bush's tutelage, American foreign policy has turned into an even greater aggressor in the international arena. The destruction of the Middle East and later the Middle East is the result of a poor approach to the problem, which instead of a solution has offered us new security issues and concerns, as well as an increased terrorist threat to certain European countries. Comparing good practices in the Cold War with the methods of the Bush administration offers us an insight into a series of mistakes that have been made and have resulted in failed or weak states. During the Cold War, US foreign policy slowly changed from the conceptual design of a just war and George F. Kennan's theory of detention, which the USSR perceived not only as a military threat but as an ideological-political one, to preventive self-defence war, which President Truman said was a weapon. dictators, not free democracies. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are excellent examples of how poor and deficient intervention can worsen the security situation abroad and at home. Instead of competing to convince individuals in these societies, as happened with post-war Europe, we have lost hard moral ground in these countries and internationally.
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