War On Terror: Human Suitable Violations

On September 11, 2015 the greatest act of terror known was committed at the World Trade Center, as well as the Pentagon. The terrorist group known as al-Quaeda coordinated an attack by hijacking U.S. commercial flights and sending two planes into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon. Luckily, a fourth flight was retaken by the passengers and could not reach its target, yet sadly it crashed in a Pennsylvanian valley. This event broke the hearts of American citizens and citizens worldwide, and the actions coming after wards would have a huge impact on America.

Introduction. The United States’ War on Terror is a mistake because it is bringing more burdens and terrorism to the United States at home and abroad.

After the September 11 attacks, George W. Bush called for a war against Afghanistan in an effort to destroy terrorist organizations. In his statement on Military Order from 2001, Bush explains that if the United States did not use military action against these groups, then terrorists would continue to attack America or other countries and take even more lives (Bush). For Bush, war was the only answer in order to protect his country. Similarly, Vice President Richard Cheney advocated war in the Middle East. He remarked that the American government would target states that assisted terrorists or supported them, as well as individual terrorists. He also claimed that the war was effective as of 2003, and that the military had destroyed certain

POL 201 Week 5 Final Paper Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, and the War on Terror

Fourteen years ago, if you went out on the streets of New York and asked who Osama-bin laden was, they would most likely respond incorrectly. The average American did not known who Osama-bin laden was. A decade ago, we were not officially engaged in any battles or wars with anyone. There was no constant surveillance or the infamous “big brother”. Believe it or not, it took half the time it does today to get through TSA at the airport. The day that changed all

Van Bergen (2002) website states “Many people do not know the US Patriot Act was already written and ready to go long before the September 11th” (p. 1). Critics of the Bush Administration claim the government had information that could have helped prevent the attacks of September 11th. Sharing information and investigations between the agencies, FBI and CIA, was allowed to break the obstacles that once separated investigations that involving criminal and intelligence ones. Information obtained by the United States Justice Department showed the CIA had previous

After the May 2, 2011 US Navy SEALS raid on Bin Laden’s Pakistan secret compound, the US government received criticism regarding holes in their report of his killing. No pictures or video were released of the body before its almost immediate disposal, and Michael Morrel, then-Deputy Director of the CIA, conceded that “there are parts of the US account the world may never be told,” (Corbin 20-3). Journalist Seymour Hersh (whose previous scoops include Iraqi prison torture, and whose reporting is matched by New York Times author on the subject Carlotta Gall) published an article in the London Review of Books citing an unnamed retired senior intelligence officer claiming that unlike what the US reported, the assassination was an illegal “extrajudicial execution”, violating “the right to life” (Doebbler 3), as someone can only be killed under these circumstances legally if they “pose an immediate risk to life” (Robertson 3) (Hersh states Bin Laden was unarmed).

Fall of 2012 on the night of September 11th our United States embassy was attacked in Benghazi. Benghazi is the legislative capital of the country of Libya. Our U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith were murdered in the attack on the compound. The attackers were working for and alongside Ahmed Abbu Khattala. That state department in Washington D.C. was heavily criticized for denying additional security and backup to the embassy during the attacks. The decisions made on that fateful night were unfortunately very politically driven. After the fantastic feat by Obama and his administration in killing Osama Bin Laden, it had become very clear that Al-Qaida and terrorism in the Middle East was not on the run as our president had stated earlier that year. It was no coincidence that these attacks took place on the anniversary of 9/11. This event shook many Americans, and the way the information was relayed to the American people aroused suspicions about the integrity of our president and his motives. President Obama claimed these attacks were caused by a viral video slamming Islam. It was easy to blame an event on a video and push the truth under the rug. The truth that terrorism was resurging and these terrorists were not afraid to attack Americans. With an upcoming election, the news that Al Qaida may be a force to be reckoned with once

Strolling down the street right next to you is someone just like you. Someone raised in the same town, similar age and loves ice cream as much as the next person. However, judging more on the surface this person has a arabic name, features and attire,this person is a muslim,. Your body boils into a bright alert red. This person is nothing like you. This person is most likely affiliated with a terrorist organization scouting buildings to bomb next. This person despises America and only wants to trick us all into thinking otherwise. Stray away from this person and give them a pulsating star, deny them an opportunity to introduce themselves as whoever they truly could be. Deny a seat at the diner for the person to have a nice meal,

I appreciate your forum post this week on terrorism. I agree with you on terrorist activity can be dealt with through the legislative process, but unfortunately, many terrorist attacks that are carried out result in the death of the terrorist. So, it goes back to how can we prosecute dead? I feel that they had good intentions when they generated the USA Patriot Act of 2001 by thinking of what, when, where, and how by surveilling our citizens to see if they aided in any terrorist attack but fail to realize the act was violating our constitutional rights.

Do you ever have one of those moments in your life in which you will never forget where you were? I remember waking up early on September 11, 2001, getting ready for school and my dad telling me hurry up to watch the news with him. Being in 8th grade at the time, the news really wasn’t something I would watch in the mornings so I knew it had to be something important. Then I saw it. An airplane crashing into a tower, people panicking, and mayhem ensuing in a city very well known to me. When any tragic event like 9/11 occurs, the effect it will have on a nation is tremendous. It left America in shock, anger, and sadness just to name a few adjectives to describe the insurmountable amount of feelings that we felt on that day.

The moral rule is not "when one is about to kill you, pre-empt him and kill him first," but rather "when one is about to kill you, do everything necessary in order to thwart his intention." Accordingly, if there is no alternative to killing him, strike first. If there is an alternative other than killing him, thwart his intention without striking first, without killing him.

After the events of September 11, 2001, the United States had a unique dilemma. America was engaged in what would be called a “War on Terror”. This new conflict was unlike any in American history. Previously, in the context of war the United States had always fought a nation or group that had defined boundaries as to where they resided. This new conflict went away from these rules of the past. Terrorist groups were not bound to a region, but were instead united by an ideal. September 11 marked the first time in which terrorism would rise to the forefront of the nation’s agenda. This emergent wave of conflict required a different strategy than the those of the past because of the unorthodox nature of the opponent. One of the major innovations fostered by the “War on Terror” was the expansion of torture. The dramatic rise in terrorism sparked the unethical advancement of interrogation techniques in order to more effectively acquire information. The emergence of the “War on Terror” required government officials acquire intelligence in a new way thus spawning the emergence of “enhanced interrogation” methods, however, the morality of these techniques would come into question as they were revealed to the public.

to health and right to peace all go hand in hand. A country at war

War Against Terror and Human Rights The Human Rights Act 1998 took full legal effect across the English and Welsh legal systems on October 2nd 1998. The Act, allows people to claim a number of the rights and freedoms that are set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. The Government had high hopes that when the act was passed it would create a 'Culture of Human Rights within the United Kingdom.'