Them and Us: How America Lets Its Enemies Hijack Its Foreign Policy.

WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; FOREIGN relations of the United States in the 21st century; AMERICAN national character; DESPOTISM; MILITARY surveillance; DETENTION of persons; QUESTIONING

The article analyzes the response of the U.S. to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Topics discussed include the emergence of the war on terror as the most significant undertaking of the U.S. hegemony in the post-Cold War era, effect of the war on terror on the U.S. national identity, and implication of the abuse in powers of surveillance, detention and interrogation of the U.S.