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

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,

SOVIET LEADERS Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko

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

OPERATION DESERT STORM The First Iraq War,

BILL CLINTON INAUGURATION, 1993 Focus on economic distress and a domestic agenda

CLINTON DOMESTIC ADVISERS Robert Reich Secretary of Labor, Robert Rubin Secretary of Treasury, Larry Summers Secretary of Treasury,

ALAN GREENSPAN Chairman of the Federal Reserve,

NEWT GINGRICH Speaker of the House,

SOMALIA General Aidid Battle of Mogadishu, October 1993 From the movie, “Black Hawk Down”

RWANDAN GENOCIDE, 1994 Lt Gen Romeo Dellaire Force Commander of UNAMIR,

BOSNIA WAR, Siege of Sarajevo Srebrenica Massacre, July 1995

NATO AIRSTRIKES IN BOSNIA, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1995

DAYTON PEACE ACCORDS, NOVEMBER 1995 Asst. Sec. of State Richard 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, 1996 World 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,

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, Maximilien Robespierre,

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 Indochina National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria

MODERN RELIGIOUS TERRORISM Bali, 2002 Madrid, 2004 Mumbai, 2006 Beslan, 2004

PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY Richard Perle William Kristol

NEOCONS IN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND STATE John Bolton Douglas Feith Paul Wolfowitz Donald Rumsfeld

U.S. ATTACKS IN AFGHANISTAN Tora 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,

THE IRAQ WAR,

THE FATE OF THE “WAR ON TERROR”