War on Terror

The War of Terrorism is the common term for military, political, legal, and ideological conflict against what the effort's leaders describe as islamic terrorism and islamic militants, and was specifically used to reference to operations by the United States and its allies since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The stated objectives of the war in the US are to protect the citizens and business interest in the US and abroad, break up terrorist cells in the US, and disrupt the activities of the international network of terrorist organizations made up a number of groups under the umbrella of al-Qaeda.

It was with disbelief and shock that around the world, people saw the news footage of the events on September 11, 2001 of the planes-turned-missiles that saw the destruction of the World Trade Center towers and damage of the Pentagon. What is probably the worst terrorist attack on the United States, is totally inexcusable and to be condemned. Some 3000 were killed.

Resulting "War on Terror"

The terrible events of September 11 saw the considerable quieting of what was until then growing domestic and international criticism of the Bush Administration. The September 11 events resulted in a “war on terror” which saw support for Bush and his popularity soar at the time.

Up to September 11, 2001, the Bush administration was being criticized around the world for its stances on various issues domestically and internationally. Even European and other allies were very critical of positions on numerous global issues.

But even before the Bush Administration, throughout the world, many nations and groups of people had expressed their frustrations at how U.S. foreign policies had affected them on all sorts of issues, ranging from economic/globalization issues that have deepened poverty and/or inequality for most people around the world; geopolitics/arms/missile defense; environmental issues and so on. Protests either directly, or indirectly at U.S. policies have occurred all around the world—especially on globalization issues—as mentioned on this web site.