A lot of water has flowed down the Hudson Bay since the time US President George Bush announced to the world that the American will lead the nations in a war against the global network of terrorism. As September 11 nears, the memories of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center come back to mind. The attack saw the international community of nations unity as never before. The unity of nations soon got drown in the quagmire of international politicking. A few weeks later, the general mistrust that governs international diplomacy was back to the fore. Soon a global war on terror was left off as a private agenda of the United States administation to revenge the worst insult it had suffered at the hands of its former Protégés. The Taliban had bitten its master and the United States struck back. Demonstrating the chilling statement demonstrating the sense of world unity President Bush said on September 14, 2001 “I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
The American media ensured that the words of its President where heard around the world. As nations prepared to see the end of global terrorism, the effort turned out to be a damp squib.
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