Jacksonian Foreign Policy

Click here for a somewhat long and wonkish explanation of Jacksonian foreign policy (as in Andrew Jackson, "Old Hickory," U.S. president from 1837 to 1849; click here for his Wikipedia entry).

This has some relevance to the U.S. attitude toward Israel. From the hard-core right-wing site, Ace of Spades HQ:

... from the perspective of the most widespread of them [schools of American thinking about world affairs], the Jacksonians, what Israel is doing in Gaza makes perfect sense. Not only are many Jacksonians completely untroubled by Israel's response to the rocket attacks in Gaza, many genuinely don't understand why the rest of the world is so steamed about Israel-and so angry with the United States.