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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Two decades after the 9/11 attacks put terrorism at the center of American foreign policy, some of the same Taliban figures who harbored the planners of that operation in ...
The war on terror, officially Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), [3] is a global military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks in 2001, and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. Some researchers and political scientists have argued that it replaced the Cold War. [4] [5]
The key to winning the war on terror, therefore, is to create a substitute for oil. Zubrin argues that a mandate that all new cars sold in the United States be flex-fueled (FFV, for Flex-Fuel Vehicle, able to run on gasoline, ethanol or methanol, or any combination thereof) would very quickly make such vehicles the world standard, as occurred in the early 1980s with the introduction of ...
The ‘war on terror’ was a victory for extremists “In orchestrating the attacks on September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden had wanted to end the global reign of the decadent West, inflict a ...
Riklin, Geoffrey, "Book Review of An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, by David Frum and Richard Perle" Archived 2006-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, The Intellectual Conservative Web site, 17 March 2004. Hutchison, Harold C., "An End To Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, by David Frum and Richard Perle", Strategy Page Web site.
There hasn't been another major attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, but the campaign to eliminate extremism has carried extraordinary costs.
The Iraq War, along with the War in Afghanistan, was described by President of the United States George W. Bush as "the central front in the War on Terror", and argued that if the U.S. pulled out of Iraq, "terrorists will follow us here." [2] [3] [4] "War on terror" discourse dominated US media outlets for several post-9/11 years.
Since the end of World War II, Western powers have consistently avoided all-out victories, often choosing containment and appeasement or limited engagement over total warfare. The result?