Bin Laden And Bush 9/11 Analysis

On September 11, 2001, a series of terrorist attacks were directed for the United States by means of four hijacked planes. Two of which hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense, and the fourth crashed in a field near Pittsburg after it was meant to hit the White House. The terror spread in the United States and brought concern and fear to the citizens. The impact of these terrorist attacks caused serious and detrimental damages within the country, and their result on the people were enormous; insecurity, helplessness, and susceptibility spread. Especially after the release of a videotape in which Osama Bin Laden, head of Al-Qaeda, admitted that he was responsible for the terrorist attacks. Hence, President George W, Bush declared the “war on terror” against all terrorists in the Arab world, specifically Afghanistan and Iraq. In the following paper, we will be discussing how the war on terror was waged, its effects on the target countries, and how it was perceived by political thinkers, where some saw it as a conspiracy theory against the Arab countries, and others believed the USA was the victim.

Mr. Bin Laden said, “Praise be to Allah who created the creation for and worship and commanded them to be just and permitted the wronged one to retaliate against the oppressor in kind.” He said that Bush claims that they hate freedom. No one except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will be secure. He said, “I am amazed at you, even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception hiding from you the real causes. And, thus the the reasons are still there for a repeat of what

Moreover, both authors go over the extraordinary ways politicians pull people into believe in them. Cross said ““What is assumed in this statement? Is the assumption reasonable, or does it need more proof?” (Cross 254) The author, reminded us as a society. That we need to be more skeptical about things that we see and or hear from our politicians. Likewise, in the mild of the death of Osama bin laden, countless politicians have express that it was better to keep the interrogation methods. Which brought about the information of the killing of Osama bin Laden. The choice of words that been used by politicians at that time. Was and still my favorites, the absolute ridiculousness of this particular words. The ultimate of euphemism. It’s torture,

The civilizations, as identified by Huntington are Sinic [Chinese or Confusious], Japanese, Hindu, Islamic, Orthodox [Russian], Western [Europe, North American, Australia, New Zealand], Latin American and possibly African. And it is among these groups that share a “common interest and common values” and have a “common culture or civilization” that will lead to more interdependence on members of the same civilization and less dependent on the West. Huntington’s theory is that the West has had [at one time or another] a negative impact on every other civilization, and this has led to a decline of power and influence around the world, especially the Islam civilization. Therefore he predicts, “the fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.”

This weeks article was titled, “A History of The 9/11 Attacks” The main idea of the article is that on 9/11/01 there was a terrorist attack. Two Planes crashed into the twin towers and killed 3,000 people. The 19 attackers were here months before september 11th. They smuggled box cutters and knives into the three coast airports. Planes crashed into New York buildings, American airlines flight 77 went around Washington DC and slammed into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters. 125 people were killed in the pentagon, along with 64 aboard the airliner. Three thousand people died in the world trade center, including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York police officers, 37 port authority officers. Only 6 people in the

This first declaration exemplifies Bin Laden’s mobilization of Muslims; it served as a propaganda strategy. The document even begins by stating that the main objective of the religious organization is to form an Islamic state to practice their form of Islam. Bin Laden knew that in order to support his change in ideology, by targeting the “far enemy”, he needed to have a much larger network of loyal Muslims. Toward the end of the document, Bin Laden even addresses the youth of Islam, “I say to the youth of Islam who have waged jihad in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina, with their financial, spiritual, linguistic, and scholarly resources, that the battle is not yet over” . Bin Laden is molding the minds of the youth, and expressing that they will be called upon to support their God.

“A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.” (President George W. Bush). After America suffered through the largest domestic terrorism attack in its history, President George W. Bush called to unite the nation and urged Americans to move forward from the devastation. Even though nineteen terrorists killed almost three-thousand innocent civilians and created billions of dollars in damage all in one morning, the President encouraged the general population that the ties that bound America and its ideals remained impermeable; and that no act of terrorism could break them. The infamous morning of September 11, 2001 and the heinous actions that occurred on that day led to instant changes that would affect America

George W. Bush is a politician, business man, former governor of Texas and the 43th president of the United States. Bush won the Electoral College Vote in 2000. One of the closest and controversial elections in American history. On Tuesday September 11, 2001, the twin towers of New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. were crashed by four passenger planes that had been hijacked by a group of terrorist. Al Qaeda, a terrorist group from Afghanistan, was responsible for the attacks. The surprise attacks prompted Bush to take action. On September 20, 2001 he delivered the speech “After 9/11” that addressed the current events, the actions that were going to be taken, and what was expect from the people. Numerous terror incidents had been

Humans often sympathize with others after events of sorrow, especially if the other person has a similar ideology. Michelle and Jared felt affected by the 9/11 attack due to the nature of the attack and the victims corresponding beliefs and values. They both most likely felt as if the attack was directed at them because the group of people who where targeted had felt apart of Jared and Michelle’s group identity. They both were affected differently from one another on account of their personal identity, the surrounding impacts from their lives. Jared was extremely shaken and down, which implies that he was probably raised to be compassionate to others and walk in others shoes. Michelle reacted in a more logically based way, watching television news programs collecting information and figuring out what exactly happened, once she had more insight only then did she let her emotions add to her understanding. Making the pair, Michelle and Jared, both react in succession with one another.

In the article by Bartley, it looks at how the West should believe in itself a little bit more and they should see how they are different. The article looks at communication and how it will insure that democracy survives and it mediates our understanding of the world. The article also looks at the “clash of civilizations” and how the conflicts will not be over resources but it will be over the fundamental and often irreconcilable values. This will make the U.S. and the West on the defensive. The article also talks about how there has been a lot of interest in cultural, ethnic and religious values in the Islamic fundamentalism. The article looks at how people in the other countries are being educated in the U.S. There is also a power of prosperity where Western values are becoming an artifact of an exogenous civilization, but a lot of people believe that they are an artifact of economic development itself. At a certain level of prosperity people want power and that the economic development leads to demands for democracy and individual autonomy. The future is no sure thing and it is all about the people.

In the present situation, the dominance of Western civilization, not the Jihadists’ one, needs to be made public everywhere: on radio, television, conferences, public schools, and online.

Samuel Huntington sees an emerging world organized on the basis of "civilizations". Societies that share cultural affinities cooperate with each other and the efforts to force a society into another civilization will fail; countries gather around the leading States of their civilization. This description of the process of new structures of international relations that Huntington sees developing, leads him to consider that the greatest risks of violence and confrontation lie in the Westerns’ claims to universality, which are leading them to increasingly get into conflict with other civilizations, particularly Islam and China; local conflicts, especially between Muslims and non-Muslims, generate new alliances and lead to an escalation of violence, which will usually lead the dominant states to make an attempt to stop them.

The clash of civilization is a theory by Samuel Huntington. In this theory, Huntington claims that the clash is inevitable. There is a new world order we are facing that include major civilization fighting for their cultural existence. On the other hand, many scholars opposed Huntington’s ideology about the clash of civilization some of them called him a great theorist using recycled conflicts as a method. In this paper, I will summarize Huntington ideology and I will show why I think Fukuyama was right.

Samuel Huntington, the author of the clash of the civilisations believes that the World will eventually divide in accordance with cultural lines, and not political lines. According to Huntington, “the thriving East Asian and Muslim societies will soon challenge Western dominance, and the United States being the World leader will need to reevaluate its policies on foreign invention and domestic immigration to remain a major player.” During the Cold War, the world was divided into the First, Second and Third Worlds. Huntington views these ties as insignificant now and states that the remaking of the World order will be based upon cultural similarity. The different thriving civilisations according to him today are the Western civilisation comprising of North America and Western Europe, the Muslim civilisation, the Orthodox Civilisation led by Russia, the Chinese civilisation, the Hindu civilisation, the Japanese civilisation, the Latin American civilisation and the African civilisation. Huntington’s proposition of the division of the World according to cultural lines has been backed by the use of various examples by him; examples of events that have taken place in the past.

In The Clash of civilizations Huntington argued that the future conflict would be different in the Post-Cold war era. In which different ideologies would not be the main reason for world problem but instead it would be because of the differences between cultures. The division of power would be placed in the civilizations that have the similar cultural norms. Huntington states that the “most dangerous enmities occur across fault lines between major civilizations” (20). This argued that foreign affairs cannot be peaceful or accommodating rather that these affairs go onto the basis of the influence of power based on different civilizations societal norms. The major societies that Huntington included were the western, Sinic, Islamic and Orthodox civilizations. The “ fault lines” between these societies