1. TWENTY YEARS ON, ARE WE ANY SMARTER?
- Author
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Smith, Jordan Michael
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SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 , *COUNTERTERRORISM , *WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009 , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
The article discusses whether changes in foreign policy of the U.S. government improved 20 years after the September 2001 terrorist attacks. Also cited are how the policies of former President George W. Bush were driven by fear and anger as cited by his chief counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke, the cost of Bush' global war on terror, and some accomplishments like the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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- 2021