Effects Of 9/11 On Society
The destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has had a long-lasting impact on American domestic and foreign policy. For many years, the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars. Few of us had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and ISIS didn’t even exist. The events of 9/11 had a significant effect on our society. The destruction of the twin towers graphically illustrated the dark side of globalization. Terrorists took advantage of a modern global society, the internet, open borders, and planes, to attack Americans at home. It sunk our economy into a massive deficit and engaged the U.S.A in a war in Afghanistan. The attacks on American soil were made to reduce support in the United States for the ‘offending’
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Even though Hussein was not directly linked to the terrorist attacks, Hussein was suspected of producing weapons of mass destruction, however, none were ever found. President George W. Bush’s The War on Terror. Now the confidence in believing the state regarding whatever it says, on terrorism, war, freedom of information, climate change, even when the governments are telling the truth. The effects of 9/11 politically, socially, economically and in virtually all spheres of life the US government wiretapping telephone calls of American citizens without a warrant to no-fly lists, Americans have witnessed the erosion of civil rights, and civil liberties have been eroded and our concern for individual rights, rounding up and deporting Muslim immigrants by the thousands when there was anything dubious about their status; including the claim that our president had the constitutional authority to imprison indefinitely, without trial, any person on the planet he deemed an “unlawful enemy combatant”. The United States is still involved in the Middle East to this day. The changes from 9/11 continue to have effects across the globe, particularly in the Middle East, where American-led military operations helped foment rebellions and ongoing warfare throughout the
Even though Hussein was not directly linked to the terrorist attacks, Hussein was suspected of producing weapons of mass destruction, however, none were ever found. President George W. Bush’s The War on Terror. Now the confidence in believing the state regarding whatever it says, on terrorism, war, freedom of information, climate change, even when the governments are telling the truth. The effects of 9/11 politically, socially, economically and in virtually all spheres of life the US government wiretapping telephone calls of American citizens without a warrant to no-fly lists, Americans have witnessed the erosion of civil rights, and civil liberties have been eroded and our concern for individual rights, rounding up and deporting Muslim immigrants by the thousands when there was anything dubious about their status; including the claim that our president had the constitutional authority to imprison indefinitely, without trial, any person on the planet he deemed an “unlawful enemy combatant”. The United States is still involved in the Middle East to this day. The changes from 9/11 continue to have effects across the globe, particularly in the Middle East, where American-led military operations helped foment rebellions and ongoing warfare throughout the