Post 9/11 Pros And Cons

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The post-9/11 was the era following the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. It was featured by a sensitive suspicion of people who were not Americans in the United States. It was also characterized by the need for the government to focus on addressing terrorism and an extra belligerent American foreign policy. The American government has been criticized because of its post-9/11 foreign policy. The policy formed shifts in alliances and became a polarized matter both locally and internationally.
The making of foreign policy has by no means been democratic. The tag of the national security has given the government of United States the authority to conceal information from their people. However, the making of the United States …show more content…

The American government has been applying different kinds of instruments which are being termed as illegal by the international law, for example, rendition and torture which is being referred to as “enhanced interrogation technique”. It involved the use of might alongside nations without legal jurisdiction and cover-ups operations. The war on terror has been one of the biggest issues in America. This is one of the reasons why the United States invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. The democracy of the United States has been the central guarantee damage of the war on terror (Tarzi, …show more content…

This is because the American public diplomacy needs a commitment to a new foreign policy thoughts and new structures. They are required to inform the people why the American government is fighting a particular war and why supporting it is one of the interests of others nations and the interest of Americans too. Terrorism has been termed as the transcendent threat the national security of the United States; it is devastatingly in the interest of the country that the American government formulates and upholds its foreign policies which make it be described as the war on terror and it receives indispensable support from the foreign