Never forget

In the morning of September 11, 2001 a group of nineteen Al Qaeda members hijacked four commercial airplanes and crash two of them in the Twin Towers in Manhattan, NY. Then, a third one in the pentagon and the fourth plane crashed in an open field in Pennsylvania. About 3000 people were killed on that day which means 911 attack has been the most dreadful onslaught committed in America’s soil. The aftereffects of this terrorist act have hurt and changed America and the world in different ways. To begin with, this attack cost New York and Washington $ 100 billion. The war in Iraq about $ 4 trillion and the world economy lost $2 trillion. Moreover, since what Americans wanted was to feel safer after this episode the national security infrastructure of the United States was transformed more profoundly than any event since the start of the Cold War; some Changes were made in different security concerns such us the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center; even a new position, director of national intelligence, was created because the 9/11 attack exposed severe lack of organization among the agencies. It also stimulated America to use torture and secret prisons to fight back. and last but not final the beginning of the USA PATRIOT ACT which allows the state to listen, read and get any information of any person living in the USA. So the government got the power to handle people as they want. 

According to the former president George W. Bush, this attack was a terrorist attack which had to be paid with the blood of the people who did. So the first thing was to attack Iraq because with this attack they would know America can defend itself. So on March 19, 2003, they attacked Iraq and killed thousands of people. They tried to convince American citizens that they were in danger and they installed panic in America.

 But the question is 911 attack had a negative effect and result for all the Americans. I have to say that this event was like any other happening in the world where some suffer and some have just profit. In first place, all the victims lost their love ones and most of Americans developed this sense of patriotism that now makes America a more united Country. On the other side, unscrupulous people took advantage of the consequences of a terrorist attack. Let’s say companies that sell arms which one of them is advised by George Bush father, Carlyle group. Furthermore, the creation of all this new private and state agencies has cost tons of dollars to the American citizens. The terror that the government inspired to American citizens has also psychological effects that lead to the people let the state to handle people as they want even invading privacy.