Publication

This paper describes how the Bush administration’s "war on terror" has been waged using a diverse array of military and non-military policy instruments. The author details how the administration also determined the preventive war in Iraq to be a part of the global anti-terror operations. The paper explains that because the US could not rally the world behind a preventive attack against Iraq, and could not after the fact produce evidence of the grave dangers it had cited, it will not likely be able to convince many other states to help attack Iran, North Korea, Syria or some other potential adversary.