9/11 The Good The Bad And The Whoops Analysis
Eugenia Rita Lee
Callie Ingram
English 102
9/11: the Good, the Bad, and the Whoops Was 9/11 a big mistake? America still reels from the attack on our sense of security, the devastating event an abrupt betrayal of our trust in social respect. Before the act of terrorism, we trusted that everyone was doing what they could for the good of humankind, if not for the nation. With the fall of the World Trade Center came the mistrust of a religious group that gradually expanded to any random stranger on the street. The general fear the public has of a crime with no aim, an attack on our nerves, has grown exponentially since that first breach of common good, but the real question is, what have we learned from such an event? Enter Charles Krauthammer, the author of, “The 9/11 “Overreaction”? Nonsense.” This charming essay on his version of the after effects of 9/11 in the US and his take on it was originally published in the Washington Post on September 8th, 2011, 3 days before the 10th anniversary of the fall of American communal trust. In it, he claims that the event was an eye opener, the act revealing to the general public that we, in terms of military and preparedness, were not prepared enough as a nation. It unleased “the massive and unrelenting American war on terror, a systematic worldwide campaign carried …show more content…
Guantanamo Bay, from the rumors, is as Ashmawy describes it, full of prisoners who we are trying to bring to a justice they do not deserve. It veers very dangerously off topic however, in its attempt to show that the only effects of 9/11 are prolonged ignorance in other cultures. By the time the article is finished, the idea of the war on terror is gone, replaced by indignation that the fear generated only sparked more fear and misunderstanding. I agree that an effect of 9/11 was mass paranoia and confusion, but that was not the only effect the event had on the
Callie Ingram
English 102
9/11: the Good, the Bad, and the Whoops Was 9/11 a big mistake? America still reels from the attack on our sense of security, the devastating event an abrupt betrayal of our trust in social respect. Before the act of terrorism, we trusted that everyone was doing what they could for the good of humankind, if not for the nation. With the fall of the World Trade Center came the mistrust of a religious group that gradually expanded to any random stranger on the street. The general fear the public has of a crime with no aim, an attack on our nerves, has grown exponentially since that first breach of common good, but the real question is, what have we learned from such an event? Enter Charles Krauthammer, the author of, “The 9/11 “Overreaction”? Nonsense.” This charming essay on his version of the after effects of 9/11 in the US and his take on it was originally published in the Washington Post on September 8th, 2011, 3 days before the 10th anniversary of the fall of American communal trust. In it, he claims that the event was an eye opener, the act revealing to the general public that we, in terms of military and preparedness, were not prepared enough as a nation. It unleased “the massive and unrelenting American war on terror, a systematic worldwide campaign carried …show more content…
Guantanamo Bay, from the rumors, is as Ashmawy describes it, full of prisoners who we are trying to bring to a justice they do not deserve. It veers very dangerously off topic however, in its attempt to show that the only effects of 9/11 are prolonged ignorance in other cultures. By the time the article is finished, the idea of the war on terror is gone, replaced by indignation that the fear generated only sparked more fear and misunderstanding. I agree that an effect of 9/11 was mass paranoia and confusion, but that was not the only effect the event had on the