What has been the effects of the “War on terror” of the U.S. Foreign Policy?

U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War was characterized by inclusiveness, the disposition the Nation showed to support any country that opposed or was threatened by communism. 

After the Cold War came the "war on terror."

The War on Terror  is the term used to reffer to an international military campaign which started as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US. 

Terrorists tried to crash planes into the World Trade Center in 1993 and bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Then came the attacks of September 11, 2001. In response, the United States attacked Afghanistan. 

During the war on terror, the US has not been as inclusive as it was in during the period of the Cold War.

But since the rush to erradicate terrorism came, the United States did not realize how deep the fault lines in Iraqi society were between Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, and the members of different tribes and local religious groups. (Foreign Policy).

Nowadays because of the destruction of the traditional Iraqi society and social boundaries because of the devastation the war brought, for the first time in centuries power is in the hands of the Iraqi Shiites.

The War on Terror launched by the Bush administration as a consequence to the 9/11 attacks has reshaped various features of US foreign policy and will have a huge impact on international relations and global strategic configurations, as it happened with the Shiites taking over the power in Iraq.

In an attempt of isolationism of terrorism, President Bush presented the Bush Doctrine, stating "you are either with us or against us", by this he was making preassure in other countries to support the US in the rasing conflict, as it is clear, this policy does NOT allow neutrality. 

Somehow and it is very shamely to say that after 12 years the struggle to "make the world a peaceful place", the world is not a safer place to live in. 
The US caught Sadam Houssein and Osama Bin Laden the names and faces of terrorism, and still the war has not finished, and it is then when I reflect about the real intentions of the US intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The citizens of these cities are living in precarious and non safe situation. Poverty increased, diseases and opportunnities to develop are almost nule. So where is prosperity?

As a personal thought, I can't wait to see the US remove it's troops from these territories, since the conflict is leading NOWHERE but more devastation.

SOURCES:

Foreign Affairs

People's Daily Online