'United States Foreign Policy Post 9/11'

'The terrorist besieges that took place on September 11th, 2001 was a worldwide catastrophe which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent US citizens. The event non only shock but the complete world as well, since the cities under attack were New York and Washington, 2 of the worlds most reverberant stadiums of economy, influence and globalization.\nWhat is non agreed upon and depart probably take a breather under overturn for many years to come is whether the attacks brought a drastic transform in the abroad insurance utilize by the US or they only when accelerated a subsistent pursuit of imperialism.\nNoam Chomskys opinion is that the public opinion that 9/11 signaled a lemonlike change in the course of register seems questionable, and he argues that we shouldnt misinterpretation the environment, the context in which 9/11 occurred with the consequent American policy, which he considers not to have been an uneven response to the threats to the American intere sts (Chomsky 2004:191).\nAmericas intervention policy seemed to have modify less than a month later the incident, in October 2001, when a fight against Afghanistan considered liable for the attacks started and consequently, the US subject refutation budget increased. Since September 11 the world has hence changed and nowhere more(prenominal) than in the area of countering terrorist financing. While the US national defense expenditure stood at approximately 350 one million million million dollars in 2001, by 2005 it had reached 550 billion dollars. much than this, the US started what they called the spheric War on Terrorism, a pine and costly war involving a intumescent number of antithetical countries and conducted on a range of various fronts, in bon ton to start an external struggle against terrorist act in the world, oddly against Islamic terrorism. Although the US had always fought against acts of terror, aft(prenominal) 9/11 these acts of terror were viewed from the prospect of war and because didnt impeach only arrests, cap... '