United States Foreign Policy Post 9/11

The terrorist attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001 was a oecumenical tragedy which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent US citizens. The event not lone(prenominal) shocked but the inbuilt world as well, since the cities infra attack were New York and Washington, twain of the worlds most resonant sports stadiums of economy, entice and globalization.\nWhat is not agreed upon and lead probably remain under(a) debate for many eld to come is whether the attacks brought a drastic change in the remote policy employed by the US or they exactly accelerated a subsistent pursual of imperialism.\nNoam Chomskys opinion is that the tenet that 9/11 signaled a sharp change in the course of history seems questionable, and he argues that we shouldnt mistake the environment, the context in which 9/11 occurred with the sequel American policy, which he considers not to welcome been an unparallel rejoinder to the threats to the American interests (Chomsky 2004:191).\nAmer icas intervention policy seemed to have modified less than a month after the incident, in October 2001, when a war against Afghanistan considered responsible for the attacks started and consequently, the US guinea pig excuse budget increased. Since September 11 the world has indeed changed and nowhere more than in the area of countering terrorist financing. While the US national defense expenditure stood at approximately 350 billion dollars in 2001, by 2005 it had reached 550 billion dollars. much than this, the US started what they called the Global fight on Terrorism, a farsighted and costly war involving a large number of varied countries and conducted on a roll up of different fronts, in swan to start an international contest against terrorism in the world, curiously against Islamic terrorism. Although the US had eternally fought against acts of terror, after 9/11 these acts of terror were viewed from the perspective of war and therefore didnt indicate only arres ts, cap...