Sample Essay
One of the four priorities of action is ‘preventing attacks by terrorist networks’. According to Friedlander (2008), democracy is one of the only long term combating tools of terrorism which eventually becomes an outcome of human rights and freedom.
However, democracy is not the only solution to this mounting threat of offshore and international terrorism, especially in the developing countries where democracy is even self selected by politicians who at times resort to buying their votes and many a times a portion of the public could be threatened to vote for a particular and dominant political figure. The remaining part of society accounts for those people who are not bothered about elections and render this day as some random happening in their country. Thus, the questions arise whether democracy is the right solution or are these developing countries better off eking out their living through a dictatorship rule?
The second priority is to ‘deny WMD to rogue states and terrorist allies who seek to use them.’ Here WMD stands for ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’, similarly, when the war on terrorism had just begun, the Bush administration deemed those seeking to acquire WMD capacity as the ‘axis of evil’, and these included Iraq, Iran and Korea (Bacevich 2007). Therefore, they emerged with the need of striking defensively against any nation before it could begin to pose a serious threat.
Moreover, President Bush released a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism on February 14 2003. This called for destroying terrorist camps wherever they were thought to exist, this opposed the strategy of deterrence as characteristic of the Cold War (Mendoza 2003).
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