The War On Terror: The Americans War Or A Real International Crisis.
The aim of my essay is to argue whether or not America started the idea of the war on terror for its own selfish needs, which is widely believed to be oil, or whether it is a crisis that could have been avoided. I want to show that the Americans have used excessive force in dealing with the people believed to be responsible and who are mainly from Middle Eastern countries. The Americans have forcefully occupied countries like Afghanistan and Iraq and in the process opened special prisons like Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba where terror suspects are tortured in order to force confessions out of them. This develops a feeling of hatred among Middle Easterners and a reason for them to bring in the Jihad, which is the Holy Islamic war, where they carry out suicide bombings with the belief that they will be rewarded in the after life because they are dying in defense of Islam.
I believe that this war has very little to do with fighting terror, but instead just to enable America to get its hands on middle Easter oil. Therefore this is America’s war and it has no right driving the rest of the world into it, with the belief that we are defending ourselves from harm.
According to the Encarta Dictionary the definition of terrorism is:
“Violence or the threat of violence, especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination, carried out for political purposes.”
In addition, the Encarta Encyclopedia has defined the war on terrorism as:
“A campaign begun by the Bush administration which includes various military, political, and legal actions taken to ostensibly "curb the spread of terrorism" following the September 11th 2001 attacks on the United States.”
I believe that both the phrase “War on Terrorism” and the policies it denotes have been a source of ongoing controversy. This is because critics argue that it has been used to justify unilateral preemptive war, perpetual...
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