United States Foreign Policy Post 9/11

The terrorist attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001 was a ecumenic tragedy which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent US citizens. The event non just now shocked but the consummate world as well, since the cities to a lower place attack were New York and Washington, cardinal of the worlds most resonant subject fields of economy, forge and globalization.\nWhat is not agreed upon and leave probably remain below debate for many years to come is whether the attacks brought a forceful change in the external policy employed by the US or they scarce accelerated a subsistent involvement of imperialism.\nNoam Chomskys opinion is that the printing that 9/11 signaled a sharp change in the course of history seems questionable, and he argues that we shouldnt mistake the environment, the context in which 9/11 occurred with the successive American policy, which he considers not to devote been an unparallel solution to the threats to the American interests (Chomsky 2004:191).\nAmericas intervention policy seemed to have modified less than a month after the incident, in October 2001, when a war against Afghanistan considered trusty for the attacks started and consequently, the US home(a) self-abnegation budget increased. Since September 11 the world has indeed changed and nowhere more than in the area of countering terrorist financing. While the US national defense expenditure stood at approximately 350 billion dollars in 2001, by 2005 it had reached 550 billion dollars. more(prenominal) than this, the US started what they called the Global fight on Terrorism, a foresighted and costly war involving a large number of incompatible countries and conducted on a scat of different fronts, in coif to start an international assay against terrorism in the world, particularly against Islamic terrorism. Although the US had ceaselessly fought against acts of terror, after 9/11 these acts of terror were viewed from the perspective of war and therefore didnt show only arrests, cap...