After September 11th there was the reemergence of security as a top priority for policy makers: both U.S. and Canadian. In practice, the Bush administration has changed the way nations and international institutions do business. This Bush administration after 9/11 was not afraid to harshly criticize other nations if in their eyes that nation wasn’t doing business they way the United States saw fit. The U.S. more or less “drew the line in the sand” and divided the world into two categories: “good” and “evil.” This sharp stance held by the U.S. thus presented their allies with a dilemma and therefore nations needed to decide how closely they would ally themselves with the increasingly radical and aggressive United States.
Afghanistan
A month after the attacks of September 11th (October 7th 2001) , the Bush administration began the “war on terror” and the initial battleground of this war was Afghanistan. Nations involved in the invasion and campaign against al-Qaeda and the......
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