ABSTRACT
The 'War on Terror' is a never-ending war, born of a militant neoliberal capitalist imperative. It constitutes a discursive construct, one that enables the Bush administration to justify and enact foreign policies that would otherwise be opposed, such as the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Speaking before the United States Military Academy, Bush announced in June 2002 that the United States was within its rights to use any and all means to ensure the security of its territorial integrity and of all its citizens. The "Bush Doctrine' became official policy in September of that year when the White House released its 2002 National Security Strategy. The Bush Doctrine constitutes a practice of militant neoliberalism, a return to the harshness of previous colonial regimes that facilitated capitalist expansion through brute force. Such is the business of war.
