Strengthen Alliances to Defeat Global Terrorism ... In: The National Security Strategy, sept 2002. The White House — George W. Bush
"The United States of America is fighting a war against terrorists of global reach. The enemy is not a single political regime or person or religion or ideology. The enemy is terrorism [...] Our priority will be first to disrupt and destroy terrorist organizations of global reach and attack their leadership;
Een einde aan terrorisme. Rutger van der Hoeven, De Groene Amsterdammer, 24 jan 2018.
"Al in 2009 verving Obama de officiële term Global War on Terror met het droge Overseas Contingency Operations en begon hij voorzichtig te zinspelen op een einde ervan."
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A Timeline of the U.S.-Led War on Terror. History.com, 5 mei 2020
"Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." [...]
"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001 and still goes on,"
The Price of 9/11. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate, 1 sep 2011.
"Indeed, when Linda Bilmes and I calculated America’s war costs three years ago, the conservative tally was $3-5 trillion."
