ABSTRACT
In a speech delivered in 1984, Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick spoke of a coming "terrorist war, is part of a total war which sees the whole society as an enemy, and all members of a society as appropriate objects for violent actions." Since 1991, the United States (US) strategy is one of active engagement or deterrence through power projection. Specifically, a state violates international human rights law if, as a matter of state policy, it practices, encourages, or condones seven types of proscribed actions. From a strategic viewpoint, the Bush administration continues to ask the US military to be prepared to fight near simultaneous major regional contingencies and to take on demanding "peace operations" and War on Terror campaigns throughout the world. In tandem with this strategic view, the basic foreign policy strategy of the US has moved from Cold War "containment" to post-Cold War "active engagement."
