The Legacy 9/11: The Militarization of Foreign Policy Version Posted by Michael Cohen

Over at World Politics Review, I have a two-part series on how 9/11 sped up the proces of militarizing US foreign policy:

On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in the single deadliest terrorist attack in American history -- the work, not of a foreign army, but of al-Qaida, a nonstate actor. The U.S. wasted little time in responding. The Taliban government in Afghanistan that had provided safe haven for the terrorist group was quickly deposed by a combination of U.S. special forces and CIA operatives working alongside Afghan anti-government forces. The leadership and core followers of al-Qaida were pushed fleeing in disarray across the Pakistani border. Since 2001, the group has been unable to successfully launch another attack against the continental United States.

This could have been the end of the story: a horrific attack and a lightning U.S. response, followed by a comprehensive national effort to protect the homeland from future terrorist assault. Instead, the so-called War on Terror went on to dominate not just America's collective imagination but also its foreign policy objectives, while transforming the role of its armed forces.
 
Since Sept. 11, the United States has devoted trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to the fight against terrorism, with the Pentagon becoming the sharp end of the American spear.

Read the whole thing here and check out part 2 of the series on some of the steps that can be taken to reverse this trend.

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