Consequences of the War on Terror in the United States

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The terrorist attacks of September 11 led to a lot of pressure from the public to find those responsible and bring them to “justice”. In order to do so, President Bush declared a war on terrorism just a few days after the attacks, but little did he know that this very decision would also bring devastating consequences to many countries. Over time, people have been losing faith in the war and in its purpose. Consequently, countries whose economies have fallen under the Military Industrial Complex have manufactured a societal fear against Muslims and jihadists. As a result, they are now being stigmatized and portrayed as the enemies of democracy, and of the United States in particular. To make matter worse, it has driven western countries to implement many extreme security measures that undermine the democratic principles they are attempting to spread over the world. The war on terrorism has had many negative consequences on modern society, which include a legitimization crisis of democracy, mainly in the U.S, and the manufacturing of moral panics over security risks that have led to the criminalization and stigmatization of the Arab world.

Chomsky and the Heritage Society take opposing views on the issue of the war on terror. Noam Chomsky argues in the article ““Looking Back on 9/11: Was there an Alternative” that by rushing into this war, the U.S just fell into bin-Laden’s trap of forcing them to engage in many expensive wars that would drive them to bankruptcy (Chomsky). Whereas as the in the article titled ““A Counterterrorism Strategy for the "Next Wave"”, the Heritage Society disputes that the war and the negative effects of it are justifiable because it is for the greater good, it is to prevent terrorism. They insist on spe...

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Piazza, James and James Igoe Walsh. “Physical Integrity Rights and Terrorism.” Terrorism and Human Rights (2010).

Simon, Johnathan. “Power, Authority, and Criminal Law.” Simon, Johnathan. Governing Through Crime : How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. Oxford University Press, 2007. 341.

The Heritage Foundation. “A Counterterrorism Strategy for the “Next Wave”.” The Heritage Society, 2011.

Walklate, Sandra and Gabe Mythen. “How Scared are We?” British Journal of Criminology (2007).

Welch, Michael. “Trampling Human Rights in the War on Terror: Implications to the Sociology of Denial.” Critical Criminology (2004).

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