events were the reason why the Guantanamo Bay prison was established in January 2002And after the events the United States of America started the ’’War on Terror’’ by hunting down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts‚" . The goverment tried to make illegal things legal. They ignore the fact that there is a given treatment to prisoner of war. The US government tried to justify torture. Alberto R. Gonzales who was the Attorney General in the united states wrote in a There is a time
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violations. Some cons to this decision are that the war was not legal and was not completed without the backing of the united nations‚ also it’s a financial burden(the war costed over 2 trillion). And that we invaded Iraq to harvest there oil. In my opinion‚ I think invading Iraq was neede but the way they went doing it was wrong. They shouldn’t have touched any of the oil in the area. Also they shouldn’t have spent a great amount of money on this war‚ 2 trillion dollars is a lot and I feel that they
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Simon Dzhaparidze Professor Omae May 2‚ 2011 PLSC 220 The State-Centric Approach International Organizations are formal institutional structures transcending national boundaries that are created by multilateral agreement among nation-states. Their purpose is to foster international cooperation in areas such as security‚ law‚ economic and social matters and diplomacy. The world system has many factors that effect what happens in world Politics. One major explanation of this is the
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September 11‚ 2001‚ a day no American can forget. On this day 19 members of a terrorist group called al-Qaeda hijacked 4 U.S. airplanes and used them to strike various targets on the East Coast. Two of the hijacked planes hit twin towers in New York City and the third plane was flown into the Pentagon in Arlington‚ where the U.S. military is headquartered. The fourth plane was heading for the capitol in Washington‚ however crashed in Pennsylvania after the onboard passengers fought the hijackers
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NO FLY ZONE A senator of capitol hill‚ and decorated war hero‚ gives the order to shoot down a private plane. This has been the third violation over the Capitol within a month "This has got to stop! I’ve had it with these crazies making a circus of this place... Well here’s the price of the ticket. Shoot the damn thing down... an example has got to be made” To his horror and regret‚ it is piloted by his precocious grandson. A child of 12‚ who has taken the plane up‚ with intent of surprising
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Years of controversy and debate have surrounded Guantanamo Bay‚ a United States military base that has been used as a detention facility for accused foreign terrorists since January 2002 (Kaplan 2005) following the September 11 terrorist attacks. The facility holds around 500 to 600 detainees at any given time‚ and most of these are‚ or are thought to be‚ members of known and dangerous terrorist organizations which are direct threats to the United States’ government and its citizens‚ such as al Qaeda
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making of weapons. Anderson concludes‚ regarding the events that took place in the Middle East‚ that "events at every corner of the globe" will continue to feel its influence. This‚ you can imagine‚ will have a domino effect on the whole world‚ one war happening after another. The people are affected due to them having "a key political flash point in the coming presidential election" (Anderson); whether we should build a wall or not build a wall to separate the immigrants and terrorists from our
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about the truck bombing of the towers. I learned a lot more about Osama Bin Laden than I had known previously. I learned that he was actually very wealthy‚ and more or less founded the Al Qaeda. As well as how in 1996‚ Bin Laden wrote a declaration of war with the US. The video we watched was very eye opening. The part of the video that affected me most was the time between the
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the building shook‚ and the world came crashing to a halt. The stock market ceased‚ the airplanes stopped flying‚ the trains stopped moving‚ and people stopped working‚ the world was silent as all eyes were on America. This caused the horrible act of war to begin‚ which in return began the downfall of the economy After the United States was attacked by al-Qaida‚ people were hopelessly obscured‚ thousands of jobs were taken away from innocent civilians‚ and hundreds of businesses were misplaced in
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The attack was not a terrorist attack because Japan targeted a military base and not civilians‚ it was rather an act of war. On a website it stated another reason why it was not a terrorist attack was because Japan had declared war on the U.S. before the bombings (Pearl Harbor Terrorist or Act of War usmessageboard.com). Although the U.S. was not fast enough to translate the message which was sent about 30 minutes before the attack. A similar attack to Pearl Harbor was the attack of 9/11 which was
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