Introduction
The 2003 National Strategy for Combating Terrorism was a strategic initiation by United States President, George Bush in an effort to fight terrorism after the September 11 attack. The strategy’s objective was to secure homeland security from possible attacks and combat terrorism. Under this strategy orthodoxies confining the terrorism fight in the criminal justice domain have been eliminated.
The first step would involve strengthening U.S security both abroad and within the country. The strategy offers homeland security the responsibility of securing the country from internal terror attacks, and on the other hand the National strategy main emphasis lies in defusing and identifying terror threats before they reach the nation’s borders. The strategy involves carrying out actions against terror groups in continuous manner that will, disrupt, degrade and finally destroy the organizations of terrorists.
The strategy shall also involve the forging of new alliances that can facilitate regional based solutions which will help isolate the expansion of terrorist networks. Constant striking aimed at the terrorist networks shall be use to ensure the terrorists do not have a safe haven. This should in turn should incapacitate the terror organizations as well as limit their scope (The White House: President George, W. Bush, 2003).
In this strategy, the U.S is supposed to also help other nations to fight terrorism so as to further reduce its spread. Where need be, the nation will also enlist support from other like-minded nations to help fight this common enemy. The U.S economic might will be used to help poor and weak nations to rid them off terrorists and terrorist networks so as to prevent the terrorists from making these nations their safe havens. The country shall also use its technology to locate, identify and eliminate the terrorists and their networks.
Other strategies include fostering democracy as a buffering element to the terrorism ideology, prevent attacks, prevent terrorists from taking up any nation as their operational ground, prevent rogue states from offering terrorists refuge, and finally put institutions in place as well as a structural framework that can be used in continuing the fight against terrorism (The White House: President George, W. Bush, 2003).
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