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| foreign policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries | ||
| foreign policy of being a "team player": ex: working in cooperation with other countries to influence world affairs | ||
| foreign policy of being a "World's Policeman": ex: intervening in other countries; affairs to promote important national interests and/or safeguard national security. This can be like the "Andy Griffith" or "Dirty Harry" styles. | ||
| foreign policy of extending your rule over foreign countries either by annexing them (permanently making them part of your nation), or by overly dominating their economic or politics | ||
| foreign policy that the United States should take preemptive action against threats to its national security, unilaterally if need be, with massive force to promote freedom and democracy | ||
| when one country decides & acts on a plan without working with other countries | ||
| attacking a country first because of an imminent (about to happen) attack...or sometimes a possible, anticipated, or feared attack | ||
| you break it, you bought it - commonly attributed to Colin Powell in his warnings about an invasion of Iraq | ||
| weapons of mass destruction | ||
| an unmanned aerial vehicle used by the U.S. military to spy on or defeat our enemies in the current war on terror | ||
| the unintended extra damage and killing that happens in warfare | ||
| type of fighting that pits a smaller force against a larger one. The smaller group usually uses hit and run tactics, sabotage, IEDs and more in an attempt to demoralize their opposition & make them quit the fight | ||
| Improvised explosive device |  | |
| trend where global power & leadership in the world's economy is starting to be shared across more nations and not just held by the U.S. as a superpower. | ||
| President when Cold War ended and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, sent troops to Iraq which started the Persian Gulf war |  | |
| President who supported NATO attacks against Serbia, pulled us out from the wreckage of Black Hawk Down, and failed to push our intervention into the Rwandan Genocide |  | |
| President when 9/11 hit, led the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, altered U.S. foreign policy w/the Bush Doctrine |  | |
| President during the Arab Spring, oversaw the Afghanistan & Iraq Wars and the killing of Osama bin Laden |  | |
| Founder of al Qaeda, responsible for planning 9-11, killed by our SEALS in May 2011 |  | |
| terrorist network responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other attacks | ||
| current president of Iran (pursuing the development of nuclear weapons) and involved in the crackdown on democratic moves in his country among other atrocious acts |  | |
| "holy warriors" - guerrilla fighters we aligned with in the 1980s in Afghanistan under the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" concept, elements of them eventually morphed into the Taliban, al Qaeda & other groups | ||
| "the students" - extreme fundamentalists who came to power post-civil war in Afghanistan & imposed their vision of Islam on the country, they gave safe haven to al Qaeda & were tossed from power in 2001...and we're fighting them still. | ||
| former Iraqi leader - once our ally in his long war vs. Iran, we kicked him out of Kuwait in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and eventually booted him from power in 2003 in the Iraq War. Captured by the U.S., tried and executed by the Iraqi Justice system |  | |
| The terrorist attack by Al Qaeda on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 | ||
| US & her big team allies' war (2001-Present) to find/kill Osama Bin Laden, destroy Al Qaeda, remove the Taliban from power & help build a nation better for its citizens than what we found | ||
| military campaign that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States under the administration of George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under the Prime Minister Tony Blair. The last US combat brigade left Iraq on August 19, 2010. Approximately 50,000 troops still remain in the country in an "advise and assist" capacity | ||
| recent unprecedented revolutionary wave of uprisings and protests in the Middle East and North Africa |
