Original sentence: It has been adopted as a consequence of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States
Edited sentence: It has been adopted as a consequence of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, the attack on the Kobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the first bombing attempt on the World Trade Center, the ambushes of U.Nevertheless, given that the entire region was (and is) in need of reform, Iraq was a logical place to go after Afganistan because to have gone to Iran, Somalia or Syria next, with Saddam Hussein still in power, would have exposed our troops or Isreal to attacks from Iraq.The name "War on terror" was an honest attempt to be politically correct and not to offend.The true enemy is radical islam and groups like al-Qaeda that take advantage of real poverty, illiteracy and desperation that are the consequences of compromises with autocratic governments that provided stability in the region during the Cold War.troops in Somailia and the truck bombing of the Marine barraks in Lebanon as well as the numerous homicide bombings in Isreal