This paper examines how
terrorism is a global problem that most Americans only vaguely recognized prior to September 11th.
It looks at the changes in American policy regarding
terrorism and what has become known as President Bush's "War on Terror." It examines initiatives undertaken such as freezing
terrorist funding and "Operation Enduring Freedom" which dismantled the Al-Qaeda center of operations in Afghani capital city Kabul by expelling the Taliban and taking Qaeda combatants into custody. It evaluates the problems in dismantling international terrorist groups due to networking coordination and implication that the war on terror may be too big to fight in the fashion with which we have thus far pursued it.