September 11, 2001...and A world that changed
What happened on September 11 2001, and what has happened since? The attack on the twin towers is now history but it is still history which we do not understand very well. Reactions at the time ran from the apocalyptic to the dismissive. Everything would soon be back to normal, said some. Nothing would ever be the same again, said others.
Even the Bush administration has moved away from the idea of a "war" on terror. General Richard Myers, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in 2005 that "if you call it a war, then you think of people in uniform being the solution". Men like Robert Gates, the secretary of defence, and David Petraeus, the new head of the US Central Command, understand that principle very well. It is dismaying that John McCain, unlike Barack Obama, seems locked into the monolithic view of a single enemy and an ultimate military victory that others have rightly discarded. American voters in particular should grasp that our common engagement with terrorism is not a war. It is far more important than that
Taken/copied from : guardian.co.uk
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/11/terrorism.september1...
It could still happen ....
No matter how strict the security....if someone is sleeping on their job (purposely turning a blind eye).
What can prevent such event from repeating.....Security cameras?
After 9-11 USA is becoming more Communist than Democratic.
sorry!
If a football team could get on planes...with weapons.... not one Plane but 4 planes...and that too timing it like "lighting the oplypic flame"....then it means that there were security offiers who were not doing their jobs...(how many were fired?).
There have been many more thousands who have died in India, Pakistan, Phillipines, Srilanka due to terrorism. Would it mean That these countries should start flying bombers into Iraq.
...and finally when some commmander surrounds Binladen in Tora-Bora mountains he gets told not to attack until Pentagon gives the green light....duh!....and they give the green light after 3 days!
On top of it all how come BinLaden hands out tapes to Jazeera channel in a country which is the Biggest US base in the Gulf. In a country which could kick you out for smaller offences like live in relationships.
His arm in a cast...Cheney must have beat him up...
You can't teach experience...
How come you're still here, mj. Didn't you say "happy weekend"? Not that I dislike it.
my son was born....
lol, MD...now im having second thoughts on who really was the mastermind behind the 9/11..
MD, I heard the same from a relative who's a pilot!
I should add that this person is a real, not virtual pilot & NO he's not tried to fly an actual plance into any tall building, but said that it would be very difficult.
Fighter pilots have expressed amazement at the skill of the 'kamikaze' pilots, hence so much discussion regarding conspiracy theories & such like!
Torque
Agree Alexa, a well made point!
Torque 8-)
I tried to fly a Boeing 737 into the Twin Towers in Microsoft's Flight Simulator. It's freaking difficult. These guys were really good.
...and hence took the 'quartet' ME envoy job!
He was offered much more money to take city jobs in the UK.
...they could throw at their respective populations on both sides of the Atlantic....AND be believed by enough people to forever change their Foreign Policy & force unjustified wars upon others.
I still get angry at the manipulative way that the likes of Bush & Blair hood-winked the general public.
I for one hope they never rest easy for the blood they spilt & through their policy actions are still spilling, be it their own peoples' or that of other nations men, women & children.
A true War Crime IMHO.
Torque
Everyone became more paranoid.
scarlett Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and couldnt terrorise US. 19 terrorists 15 Saudis and the money came from Dubai so how come Iraq is terrorizing US?
I remember 9/11 I was in grade 9th at that time all my family froze at TV I asked what's wrong ? they said attacks I went back to my studies again.
Scarlett actually I dont expect you to justify killing of innocent people to find few persons, Bush is criminal but at the same time i dont justify to destroy American homes or to kill americans to win over bush. so let us be fair.
second, US is not helping Somalia these days they are the ones who destroyed, remember we had only 6 months of stability in Somalia until US ordered Ethiopia to invade and make life horrible for everyone.
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but God. Poverty unlocks the door -- what a blessed key!
- Jalaluddin al-Rumi
so let me ask you this...when we would be searching for those not so innocent people and other people are shooting at us from behind windows and cars...how are we supposed to do our job and find the guys with dead soldiers?? War is never pretty but areas have to be secured in order to facilitate matters.
I'm all for America pulling out of Somalia...let you all fight your own fight instead of losing our troops to a nation that is totally against everything we've tried to do to help. Nothing like getting your hand bit for trying to help.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
The world is a more dangerous place since 9/11 filled with distrust, hate and misunderstanding. No one knows who the enemy really is and more people die from the confusion and paranoia that this confusion causes.
Delays in air traffic, random selective searching, racial profiling, suspicion of all muslims no matter how innocent they are.
The world is a much worse place to be than if 9/11 never happened.
Just call me Tigasin. That's what I'm talking about
Scarlett but innocent people in these countries arent terrorizing US, so that was my point, i said let them search for their enemies but stop creating other enemies, you know what, the anti-Americanism in Somalia has grown very high because of the war on terror it didnt helped US find any terrorists but forced a million to flee their homes and die for hunger and same goes to other countries, s
see this report report prepared by Enough Foundation http://www.enoughproject.org/somalia_report_090308
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but God. Poverty unlocks the door -- what a blessed key!
- Jalaluddin al-Rumi
I was watching the morning news when they showed the twin towers fall on live TV. For me, September 11th is the day that Americans found out they are not safe from terrorism. There is not a day that goes by now that I don't think of my personal safety and the safety of my family. Truly, there are no safe places in the world. The images are burned into my mind, watching thousands die because 19 people wanted to make America pay for the injustices it has done. No government is perfect, anywhere.
terrorizing the US...goes both ways.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
I think it just got worse then 9/11, because 3000 innocent people died on 9/11 and after that US killed a million innocent people and still doing it.
so i dont know when they are gonna change their strategy and look for the people who attached them and stop terrorizing innocent people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and many other places.
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but God. Poverty unlocks the door -- what a blessed key!
- Jalaluddin al-Rumi
If you do the maths, the security upgrades in the US have now caused more deaths than the September 11 attacks did.
After 9/11, airports, airlines, congress, the national transportation safety authority and everyone else decided that the best way to prevent a repeat of this loss of life was to implement greater security screening at airports.
The results were that it took longer to check in, air tickets became more expensive, and many more people decided that a better alternative to flying was driving.
Since 9/11, the increase in road deaths (comparisons on annual deaths from road accidents prior to Sept 11 2001 to corresponding periods after Sept 11 2001) have proven that thousands and thousands and thousands of people have been killed in crashes.
You could also examine the cost of the anthrax attacks that happened after Sept 11. They killed over a dozen people and cost the perpetrator probably no more than $2500 to inflict, however the US government poured hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars into anti-terrorist activities in response to an attack that was carried out not by Al Qaeda or a terrorist group, but by an American citizen.
From any rational standpoint, you would be easily forgiven that the terrorists have won, insofar as the cost and loss of life expended in the reponse to the attacks have now greatly exceeded to costs of the attacks at all (and greatly dwarf the costs incurred by the perpetrators themselves).
but that day forever changed the hearts and minds of people concerning trust, immigration laws and foreign policy.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Master Mind Is Here
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nothing has changed accept where everyone is placing the blame! Same mentality, opinions, and differences existed before but everyone now just points at sept. 11 as the reason it popped up in their minds.
Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi
Ql is already laden with topics of religion and politics...
But today is a very horrible day for everyone...GROUND ZERO is still there as a reminder.
here you go..
did I call for it, Azzi??? then sorry, eh?