The United States Should Not Be A Complete Failure

The military has been instrumental in the protection and development of U.S interests around the world. From the Revolutionary War, which established the United States as a nation, through the World Wars, which set up the U.S as one of the world super powers, to its current war on terror, the military has helped and protected U.S. interests around the world. During all these wars American soldiers have proudly served their country. Because of these wars America is famous throughout the world for military power and its protection of freedom in the world. Today the U.S is an international symbol of wealth and power; it has the largest Gross Domestic Product in the world as well as the strongest military. Yet even America falls prey to a

America has had 21 terrorist attacks, from 2000 to 2009 consisting mostly of al-Qaeda and suicide bombers (infoplease.com). Osama Ben Laden, leading al-Qaeda’s attacks is fed up with the way America treats the world. Blaming America for global warming and determined to stop them by

Terrorism has always existed in American policing, and while the groups committing these acts have changed, their intentions have not. Their intentions being to cause maximum fear and scare those who they target into doing and following their ideology. In the 1970’s and 1980’s in America, the main terrorist groups were associated with the environmental movement and race based groups, while other parts of the world were dealing with Islamic extremists, were committing terrorist acts across the Middle East without much intervention from the United States. In fact the group Al-Qaeda, who attacked the World Trade Centers in 1993 and 2001, found its roots in the 1980’s fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with weapons supplied by the Central Intelligence Agency. While the U.S. Federal Law Enforcement agencies knew of these groups, they underestimated the capabilities of lone wolf, small cell, and whole terrorist organizations. This was due to the fact that the Federal Law Enforcement agencies top priority was general crime such as organized crimes and white-collar crime.

Last but not least, terrorist attacks are still happening even in the United States. During the 1700s many Indians were terrorizing the colonies. Jefferson was arguing against the King of Britain because he did not help them when the Indians were attacking. He states, “He has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, & conditions of existence.” (Jefferson 195) The promises

In the past, there were many attacks on Americans that were treated as extremist acts and indicators of continuing attacks against Americans and their targets of opportunity. One premonition of the 9-1-1 attacks occurred on the very site of the actual attack on 9-1-1. On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2008). They place a truck loaded with 1,500 lbs of explosive in the basement structure of the North Tower. Their intention was to topple it into the South Tower killing thousands. The results were six killed and almost two-thousand injured when the devastation was completed. Closer to the 9-1-1 attack, men with Middle Eastern physical traits wanted to learn how to fly planes without learning to land them. This should have been an indicator of hidden agendas which should have raised more alarms.

Thinking about the government knowing about these attacks and doing nothing about it is sickening. Nobody wants to believe it, and that makes it all the ever more important. The first thing that may come to mind when trying to comprehend this idea is, why would the government want to do something like this anyway? One theory suggests that they needed to push the Patriot Act through congress. The Patriot Act’s title is a ten-letter backronym (USA PATRIOT) which stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". It was signed by former President George W. Bush in October of 2001. Another theory suggests that the United States government needed to justify the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Nothing fires up patriotism like an attack on our own

The U.S. has a history of being bad at entangling alliances. According to George Washington, “We need to be careful of tangling alliances” (Fromkin). For this reason, the United States was dragged into WWI. America should be constantly increasing its military, but for national defense, not for policing the world (Schneider). America's national security depends on America to stop getting involved in everything and to secure its borders. If America could stop spending millions on policing other countries; the weight of this task would be shifted to a group of nations that have their governments under control.

After unraveling of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, fears of war breaking out between the major powers of the United States and the Soviet Union were greatly reduced. Numerous commentaries, reports, and studies arose out of the question of what to do with the excess U.S. forces, and how to reshape them for a new era (Snider & Carlton-Carew, 1996). Since the birth of the United States, the military has been an important part of the United States. The US military has been a fundamental part of foreign policy, including fostering democracy, establishing rule of law, and assisting with economic development in territories allied with the U.S. (Ludema, 2007).

Terrorism not only happens abroad but it also happens in our backyard as well. The United States has had its government and citizens involved in terrorism as well. The American Revolution and the war tactics used against The British, can be linked to terrorism. Also, the CIA involvement on the attack of Rene Schneider, a commander of the Chilean Army as well. Though the United States has had close involvement with terrorist acts, it has also dealt with its fair share being a target. The Molly Maguires, is a terrorist organization that has been targeting America, since it was founded. This all started because of their opposition of the mistreatment of tenants by landlords(McEntire,2009). The Molly Maguires also protested coal mines and even

We all remember the terrorist attacks of 9/11. It was a bright and sunny morning when a commercial airliner crashed into one of the twin towers. Everyone thought it was an accident, it was all over the news, but in mere seconds, the second plane hit. At that moment, everyone knew what had happened, the most devastating terrorist attack in U.S history had just occurred. By the time everything was said and done, America was confused and filled with rage, and when Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist organization, Al-Qaida, claimed responsibility, we were ready for payback. If there is one thing that Toby Keith got right, it’s that the US of A does not take kindly to being attacked by terrorists and so, we clashed with our enemies in the Middle East for over a decade, but that’s another story. Osama Bin Laden had been conducting terrorist attacks ever since the 90’s, like when the U.S embassy in Kenya was bombed in 1998, but we didn’t take action until after we got hit on American soil.

The U.S. suffered a very terrible blow September 11, 2001 when a terrorist group named Al-Qaeda hit our country with a series of terrorist attacks in New York and VA which claimed the lives of more than 3000 people, and left us speechless, hurt, without many loved ones and puzzled on how it happened. Before that there had been several attacks such as the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City in 1993 and of the Federal building in Oklahoma two years later known as the Murrah Building ( Kano, Wood, M., Bourque, L. B., & Mileti, D. S., 2011).

The current system in place not allowing the military and intelligence communities to operate together because each are working from different authorities is another fine example of government inefficiency. It is crazy to think two agencies working for the same government cannot operate jointly to fight the same enemy because of micromanagement and bureaucratic roadblocks. It is troubling that in all this time our government has failed to adapt and change since 9/11 and continue to hinder the fight by outdated structure.

There has been terrorist attacks in the United States since President Abraham Lincoln was shot back in April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth in Washington DC. This was considered a Terrorist attack by the right-wing group. (www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html). Then on July 2, 1881 President James Garfield shot by Charles J.Guiteau in Washington, DC. This act was considered a terrorist attack. On September 6, 1901 President William Mckinley shot by Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, NY. This was considered a terrorist attack by the left-wing group. The list goes on up until the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States land marks that killed over 3,000 people and injured almost 10,000 people. Although the people responsible for these attacks

The United States has been attacked many times by different terrorist organizations, but never more vicious than the attacks on September 11, 2001. During that time the US was utilizing the resources of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to find and disrupt terrorist plots. However, sometimes once information was obtained that an attack attempt was imminent, there was not always action. There was too much data to sift through and not enough resources to track down every possibility (possible lead?). This is still the case today, however the tactics and ability of the government to find the more credible threats is substantially better than it was fifteen years ago. Though the resources and

But for me I honestly believe the only reason why we have had such tarroristic attacks of late has been simply because the terrorists wanted to show us that they were able to get into our country and do whatever they please without us knowing until it was too late what was happening. I also think until we get a better handle upon those that are able to so easily come into our country the terrorist attacks will not