Sentences with phrase «us war on terror»
Then September 11, 2001, precipitated the very costly War on Terror.
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«The «war on terror» which lies behind these interventions has failed.
Our war on terror is only begun.
«The fact that the war on terror has been expensive will surprise no one,» Bovard wrote.
In essence, it has assumed a leadership role in Washington's largest foreign - policy initiative of the 21st century: the «Global War on Terror.»
But her experience of suffering, largely in silence, was hardly unique among the 28,000 troops who have served at the U.S. military prison since it opened in 2002 to indefinitely detain captives in the «war on terror.»
Glenn Greenwald, a liberal journalist who writes for the Intercept, argued that American presidents have long cast aside due process, most obviously in their handling of the War on Terror.
The latest research has put the price tag for the War on Terror at an exorbitant $ 4 - 6 trillion, more than any armed conflict in U.S. history.
At its peak, the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba housed nearly 800 prisoners, becoming a symbol of the excesses of the «war on terror» and synonymous with criticism of detention without trial and accusations of torture.
In 2002, then President Bush sanctioned the establishment of the camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in order to house prisoners captured during U.S. military operations in the War on Terror.
Major drivers of the increase over that last decade according to the PEW Center were: recession related revenue declines (28 %), defence spending (13 %; cost of the wars on terror alone were over $ 2.4 trillion to the end of 2009 according to Homeland Security Research), Bush tax cuts (13 %), increases in net interest (11 %), and other non-defence spending (10 %).
So it seems that the confusion about how to end the global war on terror starts at the top and trickles down to individual intelligence analysts.
One interviewee, a relatively new CIA analyst named Anna, explained her confusion through the concept of the «War on Terror»:
(DealBook) Christopher Hitchens on the current state of the War on Terror.
Subsidizing both sides of the «war on terror» oddly all in places that have oil is an awesome use of capital.
Today, with dividends reinvested, the value of each share has increased several times over despite the dot - com meltdown, the war on terror, higher national debt, and a declining dollar.
The war on terror never stops.
And the United States has been none too fastidious in the way it distinguishes between the bad terrorists it targets in its so called Global War on Terror and the «relatively moderate rebels» it arms and supports to help its various geostrategic regime - change projects.
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After serving his country in the global war on terror, he has come home to serve investors by teaching them how to invest better in order to achieve their financial dreams.
«War on Terror.»
My response has nothing to do with the effectiveness or lack thereof on the war on terror and has everything to do with the «logic» employed by the OP.
When President George W. Bush, while speaking about the war on terror, used the «C - word» in its common usage as a «grand enterprise,» the medieval Crusades finally reached stardom.
the «war on terror» is about a fake a war as the «war on drugs».
The relationship between the war in Afghanistan and diffuse but real security interests once referred to as the «War on Terror» is unstated, but the tacit belief seems to be that success in Afghanistan will ameliorate problems in other places, mostly by denying terrorists a safe haven like Amsterdam or Fort Hood.
Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.
«Even the Foreign Office,» Northcott informs us, «now believes that the rhetoric of «war on terror» has advanced Islamic hostility toward Britain around the world.»
If that means war on terror, that's how it is.
This was never a war on terror....
«The brand the «war on terror» creates the illusion,» Northcott writes, «that the United States is engaged in a global war with a range of enemies who include Islamists, anti-globalisation activists, environmental and animal rights activists.»
There are no jobs, no nothing, the war on terror has run them dry!
Placing the war on terror between quotes is telling.
And how about the news made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, when she was asked about the elimination of the phrase war on terror: «The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself,» Clinton said....
When the churches got involved, what began as a «War on Terror» quickly became a «War on Muslim Extremists,» and has now pretty much degenerated into a «War on Islam.»
But Jenkins also cautioned that «terrorism» is notoriously difficult to define, and the increase in attacks does not necessarily mean the United States is «losing the war on terror.»
In the movie, Pratt will play an assassin with the skills of a cowboy, a ninja and a viking who is «the result of a secret government program to create soldiers for the war on terror.»
Hauerwas is inclined differently Let us not underestimate the difference, but let us also not allow that difference to cloud the issues that now face us in a world hell - bent on «war on terror.»
Bergen might think that bin Laden's death represents an end on the war on terror, but I disagree.
Some people seem to want to do very little, for fear of antagonising Muslim extremists, while others talk of a «war on terror» as a way of eliminating these same extremists.
There is no such thing as «winning the war on terror.»
A war on terror is not about capturing people and killing them.
This isn't about the war on terror or about degrading those victims of 9/11.
The war on terror is not «An eye for an eye» struggle.
This is the theme developed in Peter Beinart's recent book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals — and Only Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again.
It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.
That's impossible, Obama already said earlier this year that the war on terror is over.
The will to disbelieve, I trust Eberstadt would agree, applies with equal validity to what elite leftists call «the so - called war on terror.»
Why should we be happy that the government is devaluing the dollar, we are well on our way to blowing a win in the War on Terror, and that Brett Favre plays for the Vikings?
In this video essay Burnett discusses her own experiences in the Middle East and speaks to an awarding - winning journalist, Deborah Scroggins, the author of «Wanted Women: Faith, Lies & The War on Terror,» to try and answer the question «Islamic or Islamist?»
When we hear of those who have died in the «war on terror,» or from hunger and preventable diseases like AIDS, we often don't believe our voices and actions can make a difference.