U.S. security policy in recent history exposes blatant judgment errors by government officials. It seems as though politicians concentrate on promoting American security but do not realize that global security is just as important and impacts national security. In addition to annihilating the state of Iraq and Iraqi civilians, the imperialistic invasion of Iraq in 2003 is a foreign policy blunder which endangered the lives of American soldiers while exhausting trillions of dollars. The Iraq war lead to the unification of outraged individuals from distinctive states to adopt a violent form of jihad. Before the invasion, the violent jihadist doctrine was comparatively contained, but afterward, it swiftly spread across continents. …show more content…
As for Syria, the United States should have armed the Syrian uprising in 2011, it made sense from Mearsheimer’s realist perspective and from a humanitarian perspective but alas action wasn’t taken until the Obama administration felt U.S. security was directly in threat. These foreign policy missteps not only make U.S. security vulnerable they also create anti-American sentiment abroad which enhances America’s vulnerability.

According to the prevailing realist perspective, the U.S. should have used force after 9/11 to sustain American hegemony and to eliminate any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat against America (Lieberfeld, 2005). However, the Iraq War had detrimental effects and ill human, military, and financial costs. Even though realism offers decision makers and scholars consistency and structure, simply applying its general code to real, unique situations is puerile. A key result of that war is …show more content…
In 2011, it made sense for the U.S. to intervene just like in 1905 it made sense for Germany to go to war (Mearsheimer, 2001). The United States should have intervened either before Russia and Iran or alongside them to assert American hegemony (Mearsheimer, 2001). However, the U.S. also should have intervened earlier because Assad was slaughtering his own people, which lead to the largest humanitarian crisis of the century. At least, one-third of Syrian civilians have been killed, millions lack food and water, and there are over 4 million refugees. Also, the Syrian conflict won’t be ending soon because now there is a proxy war which involves both regional and world powers in Syria. Too many powers are entangled and fighting each other for politically strategic reasons, not for the sake of helping those in Syria. In fact, the United States’ paranoia with its own security subordinated their decision to accept Syrian refugees and prompted the proposal of a moratorium on Muslim immigration to the United States from an influential presidential candidate. This also prompts anti-American sentiment and exhibits a lack of understanding regarding the refugee crisis. The refugees are seeking asylum from the violent organizations in their homeland they are not the ones trying to inflict violence. Nader Hashemi calls for military aid in Syria and emphasizes the repressive nature of Assad’s