Shortly after the September 11 attacks , Searle wrote an article arguing that the attacks were a particular event in a long-term struggle against forces that are intractably opposed to the United States , and signaled support for a more aggressive neoconservative interventionist foreign policy . He called for the realization that the United States is in a more-or-less permanent state of war with these forces . Moreover , a probable course of action would be to deny terrorists the use of foreign territory from which to stage their attacks . Finally , he alluded to the long-term nature of the conflict and blamed the attacks on the lack of American resolve to deal forcefully with America 's enemies over the past several decades
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
John Searle