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THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM AFTER 9 YEARS SINCE 9/11
THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM AFTER 9 YEARS SINCE 9/11

Author(s): Cristian Barna
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: terrorism; Afghanistan war; Barack Obama; Osama bin Laden; Taliban; Al Qaeda; military operations;

Summary/Abstract: Military operations against terrorism are not considered conventional armed conflicts. If abolishing a political regime represents the aim of the military action (subversion of the Taliban regime), this aim must be strictly motivated by the need of fighting against terrorism. Within this context it must be said that, after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration promoted a victorious image in the fight against terrorist groups, asserting that the military operations in Afghanistan were only the beginning of the war against international terrorism. The American Government began to personalizing this conflict, Osama bin Laden being identified with “No. 1 public enemy”. In 2010, Barack Obama considers that the USA didn’t end their mission against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, because they hadn’t succeeded in putting into practice an optimum strategy for destroying the terrorists’ logistic bases. Although it’s been 9 years since this war broke out, Obama is decided to continue this war because it is one of the strong points of his election campaign. Rejecting any analogy between Afghanistan and Vietnam, Obama assured that after 18 months from the decision of supplementing the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan, that is beginning with July 2011, the American troops “would start coming back home”...

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 17-23
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English