The Bush administration used
the term War on Terror to argue a global military, political, legal, and
conceptual struggle against both organizations designated "terrorist" and
countries which host them. It was easy
to transition from “host” to “do not dispel them”. Washington pressured other countries to join them in the WoT saying that "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Many countries joined.
As defined, there are no civilian casualties in the WoT.
In 2013, President Barack Obama announced
that the United States was no longer pursuing a War on Terror, as the military
focus should be on specific enemies rather than a tactic. He stated, "We
must define our effort not as a boundless 'Global War on Terror', but rather as
a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of
violent extremists that threaten America.”
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