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... Boaz Gabor, the executive director of the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) and a Reason Magazine journalist, defined in the ICTs web-based newspaper, Bin Ladens Motives for the September 11th attacks:
Bin Laden and his followers regard America as their main enemy because it is America that leads the Western and democratic world, and supports the moderate Arab regimes. ...
Needless to say, either course of action to be taken by the United States needed to fire a message to Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the rest of the terrorist community that terrorism absolutely and under no circumstances would be tolerated by the United States. The message had to be clear and on Thursday, September 20, 2001, President Bush delivered it: We will pursue you, if youre a terrorist and/or "provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. ...
The Bush Administration also contemplated the drawbacks from taking a diplomatic position towards terrorism. ... But the New York Times "Case for Force" editorial argues that this "strategy has been tried as the primary answer for the past decade, and it has failed because it does not account for state sponsorship (of terrorism) and (the political) shelter of terrorists."
President Bush also had to weigh public opinion of using the United States global power and the United Nations to impose economic sanctions against countries that harbor terrorism, in order to rid terrorist from a "comfortable" home base. ...
In addition, the question still remains; will annihilating the al-Qaeda organization bring an end to terrorism? ... Until the root of the issues driving terrorism and extremists ideologies of hatred, such as U.
Approximate Word count = 1693
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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