Kurdish peoples have been treated.ö From the position of the United States, September 11, 2001 was the critical event leading the Bush administration, along with many other elected officials and members of the American public, to call for a response. It was quickly learned after September 11th that the terrorist organization responsible for the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was Al-Qaeda.
At first, Daniel Pipes (2002) stated that President Bush spoke in general terms about the response that the United States would make. He referred to ôpeople that had no countryö and people who were ômotivated by hateö (Pipes, 2003, p. 21). Later, in his 2002 State of the Union speech, President Bush expanded his remarks to include three countries that he accused of supporting terrorist organizations like Al-Queda. He called Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an ôaxis of evil" (Williams, 2002, p. 45).
In addition to using American military forces and financial mechanisms to isolate Al-Qaeda
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