On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country,

and night fell on a different world.

In the days after 9-11, George Bush declared war on an elusive, shape-shifting enemy.

A war on terror.

Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.

It started with Osama bin Laden, but it didn't end there.

We were told that he was at the centre of a global terror network.

Fanatics trained to hate our way of life, sleeper cells hidden in cities across the world, and rogue states armed with nuclear

weapons. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies,

justice will be done. It was a dangerous myth, simplifying the world into binaries, democracy versus barbarism, good versus evil, us against them.

We will direct every resource at our command, every tool of intelligence, every instrument

of law enforcement, and every necessary weapon of war.

What followed was an unprecedented expansion of American power, at home and abroad. From Guantanamo Bay to drone strikes, mass surveillance

to the weaponization of the financial system. The War on Terror redefined state power.

They were literally murdering people just because they didn't speak their language.

The survival of liberty in our land depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

There's no moral distinction between those who carry out terrorist attacks.

It's a complete financial stranglehold.

And those who knowingly finance terrorist attacks.

Oil exports, ports, the central bank, everything.

We must be able to detain, question, and when appropriate, prosecute terrorists captured

here in America and on the battlefields around the world.

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