"'Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make,' President Bush said on September 20, 2001. 'Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.' That's not diplomatic outreach or a sales pitch. It is a threat. America demanded allegiance from the rest of the world and offered nothing in return in 2011"
In fact, "[o]ne of the war's fundamental goals was to confirm the hypothesis that in the twenty-first century the rest of the world would automatically defer to America, simply by virtue of America's overwhelming military strength" (Beck 430-1)