Government and International Relations - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages... Economic consequences of these attacks are felt even a decade later. American civilians were now living in great tension as none could predict what catastrophe was going to befall the nation next. The American government had to launch the operation “global war on terrorism” to curb this vice of merciless terrorism. American government under leadership of President George W. Bush vowed to fight the terrorists irrespective of their geographical location. This war however was supported by other nations such as Britain, France, Australia, and Canada thus, the American army had troops from these nations, and this made it easier during the planning and executed of the attacks towards the enemy nations (Owen & Maurer, 2012). Among many other nations, the American government felt that there was a need to defend human rights of the vulnerable children and women in the Arab nations where mistreatment of such groups was very rampant. In this project, we will try scrutinize all the reasons that provoked the US government to plot the main attack on Afghanistan, the challenges it faced in this endeavor and the strengths that facilitated its conquest.
The US plotted the attack taking terrorist mastermind who had been the leader and main organizer of the Al-Qaeda group based in that country. The Taliban government had been ruling with extremist version of Islam throughout the country hence violating countless human rights and propagating a lot of abuse on the children, women, girls, and ethnic Hazaras (Roy-Bhattacharya, 2012). The United States of America had tried to negotiate with the Taliban government to surrender Osama bin Laden for persecution but this yield no fruit. The attack forced the US government to plot the attack and use excessive force so as make sure to attain their goal. They also sort to overthrow the Taliban government since it had failed in its role in providing its citizen with basic needs and commodities such as food, water and ...Download file to see next pagesRead More