ABSTRACT
The following chapters attempt two tasks. The first is to review the development of President Bush’s ‘global war on terror’ over its first five years, examining the outcome of the forceful US military response to the atrocities, first in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. The second places this in a wider global context. In examining the 9/11 response, the first chapter places the war in the context of a particularly vigorous security paradigm that had come to the fore in the United States by mid-2001 and was discussed in Chapter 9, but the core of the chapter is an analysis of the manner in which the war that has resulted from that paradigm has gone so badly wrong for the United States.
