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===Criticism=== {{Main|Criticism of the War on Terror}} Hardliner newspapers in Iran and religious scholars in Lebanon suggested "Infinite Imperialism", "Infinite Arrogance", or "Infinite Injustice" might have been more appropriate name for the operation.<ref name="BBC News" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1560903.stm|title=Analysis: Straw's visit divides Iran|date=2001-09-24|access-date=2019-02-19|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219073303/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1560903.stm|archive-date=19 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Osama's revenge : the next 9-11 : what the media and the government haven't told you|last=Williams|first=Paul L.|date=2004|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=1591022525|location=Amherst, NY|pages=[https://archive.org/details/osamasrevengenex00paul/page/68 68]|oclc=54823028|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/osamasrevengenex00paul/page/68}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq|last=Dower|first=John W.|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=2010|isbn=9780393080476|pages=466}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2001/553/fall72.htm|title=As the British Foreign Secretary courts Iran to aid a US-led coalition against terrorism, Tehran struggles for consensus and considers the incentives for cooperation|last=Moaveni|first=Azadeh|date=27 September β 3 October 2001|work=Al-Ahram Weekly|access-date=2019-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219130115/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2001/553/fall72.htm|archive-date=19 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> AFP, reporting on a news story in the Sunday, 3 April 2004, issue of ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{Citation | title = South Asia | url = http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/78653/1/.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040405213413/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/78653/1/.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2004-04-05 | publisher = Channel NewsAsia}}.</ref> wrote that retired Army Colonel Hy Rothstein, "who served in the [[United States Army Special Forces|Army Special Forces]] for more than 20 years [and was] commissioned by [[the Pentagon]] to examine the war in Afghanistan, concluded the conflict created conditions that have given 'warlordism, banditry and opium production a new lease on life.' " The conduct of U.S. forces was criticised in a report entitled ''Enduring Freedom β Abuses by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan'' by U.S.-based human rights group [[Human Rights Watch]] in 2004. Some Pakistani scholars, such as [[Masood Ashraf Raja]], editor of [[Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies|Pakistaniaat]], have also provided a more specific form of criticism that relates to the consequences of the Global War on Terrorism on the region.<ref>{{cite journal | year =2009|title= The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan | journal= Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies |volume=1|issue=2|pages=60β65}}</ref>
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