A Scope of ‘The War on Terror’ (Term Paper Sample)

A Scope of ‘The War on Terror’ Name: Institution: Date: In the aftermath of September 11 2001 twin attack on America’s Times Tower and the Pentagon Square, the Bush administration waged an ‘all out war’ against terrorism (Nabers and Patman: 2008). This came to be later christened with an array of names including; ‘The Global War on Terror’, ‘The Long War’ ‘War Against Terrorism,’ ‘New War on Terror’ among others that came to be accepted as a connotation of America’s retaliatory efforts against those who committed heinous acts on that fateful day. These names and others have been used in an upsurge of rhetoric used in public discursive construction aimed at justifying the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of ‘justified self-defense’ (Jackson: 2007). But what really happened on and after September 11 2001? It has been repeated time and again how some young men of Arab origin, went on a suicide mission rummaging into the Twin Towers on an early Tuesday morning. The fear in the eyes of Americans who watched the Boeing 767 that was United Airlines Flight 175crash into the South Tower of the World Trade Centre most certainly captured the desired effect intended by the perpetrators. As Nabers and Patman (2008) have put it, the level of planning and coordination that was put into that whole attack was astonishing to say the least. No wonder then, that despite human rights abuses committed by the superpower in the Middle-East thereafter, American citizens were at the time willing to look the other side in the belief that their government was doing all it could to protect them. Th...