The terrorist attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001 was a worldwide tragedy which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent US citizens. The event not only shocked but the entire world as well, since the cities under attack were New York and Washington, two of the world's most resonant areas of economy, influence and globalization. What is not agreed upon and will probably remain under debate for many years to come is whether the attacks brought a drastic change in the foreign policy employed by the US or they merely accelerated a subsistent pursuit of imperialism. Noam Chomsky’s opinion is that “the belief that 9/11 signaled a sharp change in the course of history seems questionable,” and he argues that we shouldn't mistake the environment, the context in which 9/11 occurred with the consequent American policy, which he considers not to have been an unparallel response to the threats to the American interests" (Chomsky 2004:191). America’s intervention policy seemed to have modified less than a month after the incident, in October 2001, when a war against Afghanistan – considered responsible for the attacks – started and consequently, the US national defense budget increased. “Since September 11 the world has indeed changed and nowhere more than in the area of countering terrorist financing." While the US national defense expenditure stood at approximately 350 billion dollars in 2001, by 2005 it had reached 550 billion dollars. More than this, the US started what they called the Global War on Terrorism, “a long and costly war involving a large number of different countries and conducted on a range of different fronts,” in order to start an international struggle against terrorism in the world, especially against Islamic terrorism. Although the US had always fought against acts of terror, after 9/11 these acts of terror were viewed from the perspective of war and therefore didn’t imply only arrests, captures or trials, but also military means like mass retaliation or pre-emptive strikes, which marked a shift with the Clintonian idealism criticized by the neo-conservatives for being too weak. “Most of these policies -- preemption (really prevention), unilateralism, military supremacy, democratization, free trade, economic growth, alliance cohesion, and great-power partnerships -- were outlined in the administration's 2002 National Security Strategy”5, which constituted the “Bush Doctrine” that introduced new strategies of intervention, namely the US was willing to attack any country considered to be a threat, imminent or not. As a consequence, the definition of an “axis of evil” arose within