The Bush Doctrine was a set of foreign policy decisions by President Bush administered after the 9/11 attacks in 2001; these were first applied on the United States invasion into Iraq in the early 2000’s. Therefore, in 2002 Bush’s foreign policy targeted North Korea, Iraq, and Iran because the U.S. claimed these evil nations supported terrorism and had or wanted weapons of mass destruction. This change in traditional war policy was not preemptive self-defense, because they did not wait for the Security Council to approve. But it was what they called “preventive” war, which was not and still is not an existing thing in just law, though it gave them the power to take action on a nation just because they think something is threatening. As the Security Council …show more content…
The Doctrine changed the United States foreign policy, which was usually the U.S. removing itself from any conflict that directly did not involve the U.S., therefore it allowed them to assist nations that were not receiving the extra help before. This Doctrine was put into place soon after the British started withdrawing their aid from Turkey and Greece who depended on it heavily for military and economic assistance. This was mostly in an effort to make sure both Greek and Turkish policy would not become influenced by the Soviets, who were trying to take claim and control of the nations. Truman argued that providing $400,000,000 worth of aid to these two nations would be important to the United States national security because it would be helping free peoples and resist the spread of authoritarianism. Therefore, the Doctrine was put into place to assist U.S. foreign policy by helping democratic nations that would possibly be overrun by