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A 6 page research paper that profiles a specific text. Understanding the War on Terror is an insightful anthology of essays, edited by James F. Hoge, Jr., that collectively seek to offer readers comprehension on what many Americans continue to regard as inexplicable. By examining the arguments made in a selection of these essays, this discussion will address which countries in the world affect the U.S. war on terror to the greatest extent and how experts propose that the federal government can work with these countries to fight terrorism effectively. No additional sources cited.
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what many Americans continue to regard as inexplicable. By examining the arguments made in a selection of these essays, the following discussion will address which countries in the world affect
the U.S. war on terror to the greatest extent and how experts propose that the federal government can work with these countries to fight terrorism effectively. In his introduction
to the text, Gideon Rose summarizes the events of September 11, 2001, the attacks that initiates the current foreign policy mandate known as the War on Terrorism. This introduction outlines
also the initial military reactions of the U.S., which included the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions. Rose comments that while national security experts were in consensus that Saddam Husseins regime and
his presumed weapons programs were problems that needed to be addressed, they disagreed on how to approach this problem and were skeptical concerning the Bush administrations attempt to link
Iraq to organized terrorism, which are fears that have largely been substantiated (Rose ix). Michael Howard points out that the "war on terrorism" is no really a "war,"
in the military sense of this term, but rather a "war" in the same way that the government has been fight a "war against crime or against drug trafficking; that
is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate," but rather simply kept at a level that reduces its threat
to a societys stability (Howard 318). Of all of the countries that the US has traditionally turned to as allies, the United Kingdom (UK) has had the most experience fighting
this type of "war," as they have done so in "Palestine, in Ireland, in Cyprus and in Malaya (modern-day Malaysia)," as well as elsewhere (Howard 318). Interestingly, Howard points
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