President Bush's Stand about War on Terror

The shock and moral outrage provoked by the September 11 attacks were deep, genuine and expressed by people throughout the world. Had someone denied that the attacks were grievous wrongs, the denial would have reflected badly on whoever expressed it rather than casting doubt on the wrongness of the attacks. Moreover, if asked why the attacks were wrong, the most natural answer is that they killed innocent people. This event of September 11 raised the issue of the threat of terrorism. It was the responsibility of the President of that time George W. Bush to devise strategies to combat this issue. The stand that US took against this event and against terrorism faced immense criticism. The aim and objective of this paper is to talk about these strategies and to justify these strategies. The strategies that were adopted by the Bush regime were fair and good because of a number of reasons. The first and the most important reason on the basis of which these strategies can be supported and can be regarded as fair is that these strategies were adopted to spread peace and to provide protection to this world from the fear of terrorists. These strategies can be proved by the George W. Bush's "moral vision" to guide foreign policy planning. This moral character has been seen many times in a number of statements by President Bush: "Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil." "God is not neutral in this conflict between freedom and fear, justice and cruelty." "Moral truth is the same in every culture, in every time, and in every place. America will call evil by its name. This character was highlighted most significantly in the declaration of an axis of evil. President Bush has made clear on many occasions that the war on terror will be a long war and a war that will be "fought on many fronts" (Sullivan, pp. 72).

The strongest and clearest guidelines for U.S. foreign policy were presented in President Bush's January 2002 State of the Union Address when he stated his first two primary objectives, of "ridding the world of terrorism", and defining and defeating the axis of evil. 9 These two defining points presented a clear direction of the administration, but there was some uncertainty about how these goals could be achieved (Gardner 2005, 15).

A clear point of the Bush Doctrine is that it calls for pre-emptive measures!' to deal with security threats. In his speech at West Point, President Bush stated, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge” (Williams 2005, 25).

Bush's Regime and the Support of NSS National Security Strategy

Strategies of George W bush can also be supported by the content and notion that is presented in national security strategy. The National Security Strategy (NSS) of the Bush Doctrine has four distinct features; first, the NSS places ...