“Following the September 2001 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration declared that the United States would respond by forging a multilateral coalition to engage in a military campaign in Afghanistan against Al-Qaida and the Taliban regime that protected them there. From the outset the administration stated the global war on terror would be a long-term struggle. It has certainly been that.”
Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat
(MIT Press, 2007) By David Cortright and George A. Lopez, eds.
