THE U.S. WAR ON TERRORISM SINCE THE COLD WAR

PRESENTATION BY PROFESSOR DAVID H. BENNETT

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012

THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

November 1989

RONALD REAGAN AND THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) “STAR WARS

Ronald Reagan

U.S. President 1981-89

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991

SOVIET LEADERS

Leonid Brezhnev

1964-1982

Yuri Andropov

1982-1984

Konstantin Chernenko

1984-1985

AFTER THE FALL OF THE U.S.S.R.

U.S.S.R., 1917-1991

OPERATION DESERT STORM

The First Iraq War, 1990-91

BILL CLINTON INAUGURATION, 1993

Focus on economic distress and a domestic agenda

CLINTON DOMESTIC ADVISERS

Robert ReichSecretary of Labor, 1993-1996

Robert RubinSecretary of Treasury, 1995-1999

Larry SummersSecretary of Treasury, 1999-2001

ALAN GREENSPAN

Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1987-2006

NEWT GINGRICH

Speaker of the House, 1995-1999

SOMALIA

General Aidid

1934-1996

Battle of Mogadishu, October 1993

From the movie, “Black Hawk Down”

RWANDAN GENOCIDE, 1994

Lt Gen Romeo DellaireForce Commander of

UNAMIR, 1993-94

BOSNIA WAR, 1992-1995

Siege of Sarajevo Srebrenica Massacre, July 1995

NATO AIRSTRIKES IN BOSNIA, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1995

DAYTON PEACE ACCORDS, NOVEMBER 1995

Asst. Sec. of StateRichard Holbrooke

U.S. AIR ATTACKS ON IRAQ, DECEMBER 1998

TERRORIST ATTACKS BEFORE 9/11

U.S. Embassy in Kenya, August 1998 U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, October 2000

Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, June, 1996World Trade Center in New York, February 1993

MISSILE STRIKES IN SUDAN AND AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1998

Wag the Dog?

2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Florida recount

Bush v. Gore, 2000 Supreme Court case

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, 2001-2009

9/11

OSAMA BIN LADEN

A “WAR ON TERROR”?: A BRIEF REVIEW OF TERRORISM

ZEALOTS

Great Jewish Revolt, 66-70

FRENCH REVOLUTION

Jacobin Reign of Terror, 1793-94

Maximilien Robespierre, 1758-1794

1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were shot dead in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist, Gravilo Princip. This event was the trigger to the start of World War.

POST WWII ANTI-COLONIAL CAMPAIGNS

Viet Minh in French IndochinaNational Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria

MODERN RELIGIOUS TERRORISM

Bali, 2002Madrid, 2004

Mumbai, 2006Beslan, 2004

PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY

Richard PerleWilliam Kristol

NEOCONS IN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND STATE

John Bolton

Douglas FeithPaul Wolfowitz

Donald Rumsfeld

U.S. ATTACKS IN AFGHANISTANTora Bora

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Downing Street Memo, July 23, 2002

Colin Powell speech at U.N., Feb. 5, 2003

Iraq Survey Group and Duelfer Report, 2003-04

THE IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011

THE FATE OF THE “WAR ON TERROR”