What is our foreign policy doing to our domestic security?

What is our foreign policy doing to our domestic security?

Jason Burke (Author) gives expert video advice on: Are we in imminent danger?; Why do Al Qaeda target civilians?; What is our foreign policy doing to our domestic security? and more...

There was a threat to the UK, Europe, the US before the invasion of Iraq and before the war in Afghanistan. However, particularly since the war in Iraq that threat has become far more serious. What our foreign policy does in the Middle East or Southeast Asia has a direct impact on how we are perceived and on how easy or difficult it is for the militants to be able to recruit. How convincing their argument that the West is attacking Islam becomes. So there is a link between recruitment and our foreign policy in the Middle East or elsewhere. Where it becomes more complicated is whether that foreign policy is strategically, globally further down the line, the best way of protecting us even if in the short term there is a cost in terms of hearts and minds. And there are a people who will argue strongly on both sides of that debate.