A quick gaze back over the decade since the 9-11 attacks finds that the neo-conservatives acquire achieved the opposite of what they set out to conclude: rather than winning a war on terror and expanding their power even further,they acquire over-stretched their own nation, militarily and economically. The Bush Administration preferred to concentrate on Iraq rather than Bin Laden and the trillions of dollars spent on this (directly and indirectly) has contributed to the recent economic problems the country now faces. All terribly costly given there were opportunities to get Bin Laden a lot earlier.
Media coverage and public attitudes acquire also shifted in the past decade, and now nearly reflecting partisan lines. Rights groups around the world acquire long voiced concerns that the war on terror is also an excuse for governments to wage a war on freedoms. Bin Laden may be dead but are the terrorists winning?Read full article: War on Te
Source: globalissues.org