The war we have waged on terror in this century is a direct reaction to terrorist actions in the United States instituting a ‘new’ ideology of thinking from government officials. The United States has changed its thoughts on terror to help give meaning to a now seven year old long war. Though terror was inflicted on the US the war is not waged on US soil, nor on the soil of the leaders of the terrorist cell. It is waged in a place where President Bush Sr. failed at capturing an old terrorist, and where his son decided he needed to finish the job. Bush Jr. uses the excuse of terror to wage war on a country that did not produce the terrorists who have acted against the US. The terror enacted on the US was, and could have been taken care of with a series of military strikes but is now a drawn out war thanks to a new warped sense of the definition of terrorist. The US has the thinking that they are the ‘world police’. We are not them, we are simply the country that the terrorists aimed the biggest gun at and took pot shots at. These terrorists were not put there to bring down the US or to disrupt New York’s infrastructure, but to show their dislike of Western culture. The essence of our culture as a whole infuriates the Terrorists and the culture is what they are striking against, not us, not our people, economy or building styles, but our culture. The non-traditional, non-religious culture perpetrated the worst in the United States.