911 Term Paper
Jerry Winfrey Doctor McNair
History 1302
March 6, 2012
How Has America and I Changed Since September 11, 2001 (911)
Almost all Americans can still remember where they were the morning of September 11, 2001. Smoke billowing from the World Trade Center across a clear blue sky is and will be etched in American minds for years to come. First American were in shocked that a terrorist attack of that magnitude could happen in New York city or Washington D.C. or any other part of America. Initially the Nation was in shock followed by anger which later led to fear. 911 changed America and my life forever. It has changed our live in many ways.
President George declared a war on terror shortly after the attacks on the world trade center and the Pentagon. The U.S. gave the Taliban and the Afghan government an ultimatum to turn over Osama Bin Laden and they refused. The US and NATO invaded and the Taliban government was toppled in eight weeks with the help of the Northern Alliance. The U.S. continued to punish and pursue Al Qaeda into the mountains and surround them. Our military was within weeks of crushing Al Qaeda when the Bush Administration shifted focus to Iraq. This created a vacuum that led to an Al Qaeda resurgence. The U.S. loosing focus on Afghanistan angered our Pakistani ally. A decade later we our no closer to winning the war in Afghanistan than we were in the beginning. Even with Bin Laden dead American casualties have sky rocketed from 270 in 2008 to 3,371 last year. We are now left in a quagmire in Afghanistan because we failed to complete the job in Afghanistan, while fighting an unneeded expensive war in Iraq. (Hirsch)
The War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan along with the Bush tax cuts have seriously crippled the nation’s economy sending the government five trillion additional dollars into deficient spending. President Bush and the U.S. Congress cut taxes while spending trillions of dollars on the war on
History 1302
March 6, 2012
How Has America and I Changed Since September 11, 2001 (911)
Almost all Americans can still remember where they were the morning of September 11, 2001. Smoke billowing from the World Trade Center across a clear blue sky is and will be etched in American minds for years to come. First American were in shocked that a terrorist attack of that magnitude could happen in New York city or Washington D.C. or any other part of America. Initially the Nation was in shock followed by anger which later led to fear. 911 changed America and my life forever. It has changed our live in many ways.
President George declared a war on terror shortly after the attacks on the world trade center and the Pentagon. The U.S. gave the Taliban and the Afghan government an ultimatum to turn over Osama Bin Laden and they refused. The US and NATO invaded and the Taliban government was toppled in eight weeks with the help of the Northern Alliance. The U.S. continued to punish and pursue Al Qaeda into the mountains and surround them. Our military was within weeks of crushing Al Qaeda when the Bush Administration shifted focus to Iraq. This created a vacuum that led to an Al Qaeda resurgence. The U.S. loosing focus on Afghanistan angered our Pakistani ally. A decade later we our no closer to winning the war in Afghanistan than we were in the beginning. Even with Bin Laden dead American casualties have sky rocketed from 270 in 2008 to 3,371 last year. We are now left in a quagmire in Afghanistan because we failed to complete the job in Afghanistan, while fighting an unneeded expensive war in Iraq. (Hirsch)
The War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan along with the Bush tax cuts have seriously crippled the nation’s economy sending the government five trillion additional dollars into deficient spending. President Bush and the U.S. Congress cut taxes while spending trillions of dollars on the war on
Cited: Abramson, Jill The 9/11 Decade Mission Unfinished, NYTimes.com, September 8, 2011 web Clary, Susan and Meckler, Laura Sky Patrol: U.S Times; Armed Secret Agents Have Gripes After 9/11; Dress Codes Blow Cover Wall Street Journal 9 February, 2007, web Elliot, Andrea The 9/11 Decade Young Muslims Come of Age New York NYTimes.com September 8, 2011 web Hirsh, Michael After 9/11, Americas Decade of Disaster National Journal, September 1, 2011 print Kleinfield, N. R. The 9/11 Decade The Price of the New Normal NYTimes.com September 8, 2011 web McGregor, Richard America after 9/11: United We Scan FT.com, 2011 September 6, 2011 web