September Eleven Two Thousand and One

          On the morning of September 11 2001, Three terrorist attack were taken out on the World Trade Center  in New York City and in The Pentagon over in Washington D.C. These attacks were planned out by a group of radical taliban muslims called the Al-Qaeda. These events changed not only our country but the world. It was a huge shock to have been attacked on american soil. This attack made americans more patriotic than ever changing the names of french fries to "freedom fries" and other things like it. This event also started a lot of racism not only with Muslims but everyone that was not a born American. President Bush and the government declared a war on Iraq and a "war on terror" 

          Im sure there are people everywhere that dont think the U.S. over reacted to the attacks of 9/11. There are folks out there that are totally fine with this war being the longest war in the history of the country which is crazy. Since airport security has gone way up I'm sure there are some people that think we are way safer than we were 11 years ago but terror doesn't have to strike from and airplane. A perfect example of a terrorist attack that didn't need an airplane was the Batman shooting in Colorado. Just because our airports are safer doesn't mean we are.

          I think the U.S. tremendously over reacted to these attacks. I agree with them on going to war to stop the Al-Qaeda but they did it to over throw a government, allegedly. This has been the longest war in American history and for what? Yea our country and innocent people were killed but the 11 year war is just too long for three buildings. When Pearl Harbor was attacked much more people were killed and valuable Navy ships were lost and some fighter planes too and The U.S. stayed less in that war than this one. We are still living in great danger. People in other countries must see the U.S. as an invading country that just wants things their way and they are kind of right. There was no real need for the U.S. to over throw Saddam. What we needed to do was stop Al-Qaeda. Although our airport security was greatly improved, there is still probable terrorist attacks. There are crazy people everywhere in the world and we shouldn't worry only on outsiders. There can be threats from anyone that is already in the country and they dont need a plane to do take action.