9/11 and The Aftermath

  On September 11 2001, the United States Of America faced one of the most catastrophic events. On this day, the nation was at war with an unfamiliar force to americans better yet known as Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda assembled 19 of their members to carry out the deadly attacks that have been planned for years on America.  These 19 members distributed into four different groups and hijacked four US commercial planes. Two of these planes were hijacked from  Boston Logan Airport (Flight 11 and 175) and both were crashed into both the twin towers in NYC while flight 77 landed in the Pentagon in Washington DC and flight 93 landed into a vacant field in Pennsylvania. These acts of terrorism left the country absolutely devastated and the government surely knew the country was at war with Al-Qaeda.

  What happened on 9/11?  Did the US over react to 9/11 or did it do everything right to keep us safe? Who is winning the war on terror? Are we safer today? These are all good questions that deal with the aspect of terrorism. Basically, I have my own opinions or should i say answers to these questions. I believe that there won't be any disagreements because I'm only going to state facts to these questions.

  The American government did a lot of things that were necessary to ensure the well-being and safety of its fellow citizens and also did things that weren't called for. Although it invades the privacy of Americans,creating the Patriotic Act  was a positive act of safety for American citizens because the government and Intelligence Agencies can now acts of terrorism throughout the country. People disagree with this act but what's more important their privacy or lives? The war on terror is almost impossible to defeat. It's funny because this class was talking about last week whether it is possible to destroy and completely get rid of Wikileaks. The answer was no. This is exactly like trying to defeat Al- Qaeda. If i was to say who was winning the war, I would simply say no one is winning even though we killed Osama. But the threat is still there and is still taking place as we speak.

Although winning the war is nearly impossible, I do believe that Americans are safer. The TSA are in full effect everyday which makes it harder to bring major threats to our local and international airports. Our Intelligence Agencies have cracked down on numerous terrorists attacks or plans. Since 2001, no major attack has taken place in the American society, such as the terrorist plan to disarm a bomb in Detroit but the attack was not carried forth due to the increased protection from our National Agencies.