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What impact did 9/11 have on the world?
gebon524
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What impact did 9/11 have on the world and also to you?
For me no single figure since the Second World War has made so profound an impact on world events as Osama bin Laden. Had the world responded to his 9/11 attack on America with moderation he would probably have disappeared, expelled from Afghanistan or killed by his Tajik enemies. Even the Taliban were known to have been shocked by 9/11, when almost the entire Muslim world came out in sympathy with America (including the PLO in Palestine).
It was a brief moment of American moral supremacy. Yet by launching armed aggression, first against Afghanistan and then against Iraq, America wholly squandered this gain. The aggression led to a tide of anti-Americanism and surge of support for fanatical Islamism across the Muslim world. The wars cost tens of thousands of lives and caused mass destruction. The billions of dollars expended on them were financed largely from borrowing, which in turn has destabilized the world economy. All this was out of all proportion to the attacks on 9/11. Indeed the response to 9/11 was as Bin Laden must have dreamed. He saw widespread hostility towards the west and its aggressive behavior in the Muslim world. Civil liberties were curbed and governments reverted to cold war paranoia. America was again the great Satan. The peace dividend so eagerly waited at the end of the 20th century evaporated as the security industry exploited counter-terrorism and seized every chance of profit and risk aversion. Bin Laden became a role model for fanatics everywhere. The decade since 9/11 must rank among the most inept and counterproductive eras in the story of modern statesmanship.
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Interrupted a decent tv session before school started, and nearly every channel was flooded with it.
"I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."
That's about right for an 11 year old. I was 9 when the Cuban missle crisis occured. All I cared about at the time was this guy that I knew as the Presisdent kept coming on TV and interrupting my cartoon shows. That and the nuclear missle drills meant we got a five or ten minute break from lessons and we sat out in the school halls with our backs to the wall.
I lost my bloody job, and because of that tragedy I became poor. After 5 years when I got another job and step by step I regain my confidence. FU Osama bin laden
Let's just pray that it will not happen again, and besides we suffered a lot ever since the world reacted to the 9/11 attacks. But who knows, our own country might be the next target!
yea, I just can't describe how much I did not care about it when I was 11 years old, was my last days before school and god damn it I wanted to watch Tv.
After that when school started we messed with the muslim kid we had on our class, poor guy.
"I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."
To be brief, the effects are still playing out. The impact on the market, etc etc. The US dollar having the effect on the planet that it did and does, it's de stablization and that impact, has'nt finished playing out, and will probably not be fully appreciated for decades.
Personally, it was nearly a game ender for me, and altered the state of my retirement irreparably.
One a positive note, for a couple weeks, imediately following the incident, in America, there were no racial lines. Yes there was a problem with creed. But there was no black and white , etc etc, or that was my observation.
Each time we passed another person (regardless of race, or status), on the street, or going into a store, we would look each other dead in the eyes, do a gut check and a slight nod, and be thankfull we were'nt alone. We had another American, right there, on the same page.
It should've already been that way, yes. It didn't last for very long, yes.
Did we learn anything from it? Any of it?
That can only be answered in each persons heart.
That the answer is not a resounding, "Yes," may be the greatest danger we yet face.
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I was 11 y old and tv shows were my last concerns. Terrorists destroyed two towers, it shocked me and i was very interested into the development of events.
Anyway, the impacts were multiple, economic , new wars, a new fear for terrorism, etc.
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i watched it happend on tv, was woken up to see what was going on. i was in disbelief for a few days.
i don't really think about it anymore except when news and t.v. once again want to cash in on this tragedy every time around september.
"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
- Lewis Thomas
It was indeed a huge event which heavily impacted the world but the media has the control of the impact tbh. It was a devastating event which affected so many lives which will be remembered for many years to come. But the war in Iraq, that was a complete fiasco, so many people(insurgents) were killed and millions of lives were ruined, which will be long forgotten...wait, there was a war in Iraq right?
We're all Geniuses. Most of us just don't know it.
$5 says this thread is going to be locked for being political.
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I was 8 so wasn't that interested at the time.
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For me that was the brutal, and should I say brilliant Idea of the terrorist. because they wake up the cold blood of everybody, and that tragedy make the whole world panic, stress, and the positive thing the terrorist make the whole world prepared and alert in time of trouble. this kind of insident makes me think that even there is a tragedy there will be a lesson for every trials that will be in return.
The September 11 attacks (called September 11, September 11th or 9/11),were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks against targets in New York and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger jets.The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours.
Hijackers crashed a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. When passengers attempted to take control of the fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, preventing it from reaching its intended target in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 died in the attacks.
The destruction caused serious damage to the economy of Lower Manhattan.
OMG peoples are getting worst and worst by the time goes by. Terrorism is spreading.
I saw a group of idiots do something idiotic and got a big reaction from another group of idiots.
9/11 and the wars that followed proved that trolling can be deadly.
As for me personally 1998 and 1999 were going great. 2000 to 9/10/2001 were actually fantastic. Since 9/11 I witnessed everything I was growing in to became a stuttering pile of crap. I don't blame any one group either. The fact that society changed and has changed and I don't see any foreseeable return to a better time in the near future...
I don't think a pile of body bags has done much to alter the goal of the attack. I think a dept crisis and the cusp of an outright civil war in Western society spells out the success of the attack. 10 years later we still have a lot to mourn.
It didn't have to be that way.
I used to play MMOs like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
It ruined lifes of countless people not only that it affected their families, because most people that was harmed has children needing the support of their parents. Many people lost thier jobs, love ones, loss income, even foreigners got affected to the attacks. Business investors in America suddenly dropped due to the thinking of lack of security in America.
Lets Pray for those who lost thier love ones and affected by this terrorism.
I now get to enjoy TSA agents fondling my balls and poking my butthole when I go to the airport.
Something happened on this day? can't have been something to big.
*shrug*
"You have some serious mental issues you may need to seek some help for. There are others who post things, but do not post them in the way you do. Out of every person who posts crazy shit in this forum, you have some of the craziest and scariest" -FarReach
nothing to say but it's stupidity. why? because if your going to attack a country don't hit the buildings. instead kill the president. sounds hard right, but in the pass JFK and roosebelt were been assasinated. haha
9/11 ruined Grandparent's Day. Now people's poor grandparents have everyone running around saying "never forget", and they forget about them.
I think the families and people who lost loved ones and friends in the WTC remember it everyday and will "never forget". Anyone who saw it on television who didn't know anyone will "never forget" people jumping from the buildings. The event was simply too historic to "never forget".
I dislike having someone in my face always telling me "never forget" as if it's something you can. They seriously need to tone the rhetoric down before it turns into a national shopping day or something else people start avoiding like Pearl Harbor Day.
The whole concept of "never forget" is pretty dumb and shows it's just turning into a slogan to be exploited for money with commemorative this and collectible that. When was the last time someone said over the last ten years, "9/11? What happened on 9/11? I don't remember anything important happening on that date."
"TO MICHAEL!"
Right after the terrorist attack the whole United States sort of paused out from everything they were doing. People were so shocked that they stopped doing whatever they do best. Right after 9/11 the government started to spent most of their money prior to the terrorist attacks. The government also began to use a lot of money in sending the U.S troops to Afghanistan. For the first couple months the economy dropped continuously. It is estimated in a report to congress that 130,000 people lost their jobs due to attack. The terror attack had a short-term effect on our economy. The government made Credit much more easier with a cheap interest rate as possible. So that the people who were not employed and people who suffered from the attacks can borrow money from the bank. The interest rate were also cut by .5% at that time because the government wanted people to recover as soon as possible from the crisis. The four main ways how the economy was harmed by the attacks are there was a decrease in the capital stock which is the money. The investors were not investing money like they did before. They were uncertain if they will profit from them or not. The industries also suffered a lot from the economy. Industries were also effected since people were not buying or selling products.
September 11 gave the Americans a great shock. A lot of people lost their family members. Some lost their family, relatives in the twin towers, some were the passenger who were on board on the planes. Most of the people are pissed off about the attacks and some of them are still in fear thinking it might happen again. A huge number of people are still facing mental health effects still today. After a long research I can see that people are reexamining their priorities in life. They are trying very hard to forget about the past and move on with their everyday life by blessing the heroes who in September 11. But they hope nothing like that ever happens again in this world. the American Psychological Association finds that people living in New York who have experienced the 9/11 attacks are showing mental health problems more than others. More than 24 percent are still depressed from what happened in 9/11. More than three-quarters of Americans which is 77 percent said that they are trying take easy their life and move on with their life. But the Muslim families had faced some other kind of problem. They were investigated here and there. Especially the Arabs, they were always suspected by everybody in anything they did. The immigration was also at the back of them. People in America started to call the “ The Bad guys”. the local police were looking for clues and were under pressure to fight terrorism. The arrested any Arabs if they found any small clues. The Arab families were under stress. Arab-Americans reported an increasing sense of victimization, suspicion of government and law enforcement They concerned the government to protect their civil liberties. The media, TV interviews made The Arabs even more scared.
It is where the death toll of over a million middle eastern people died over the years started.
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Flying after 9/11 attacks became very hard for people. They feared something bad might happen to them too. Before, people did not really think about the consequences that might happen to them when they travelled with a plane. But now 9/11 sort of put fear in people`s mind from all over the world. As stated in an article, Many business men and women also feel a little scared and uncomfortable flying after the terrorist attack in 9/11. A lot of them decided to quit their jobs because of flying. Flying on a plane became a nightmare to people nowadays. Some people think they won’t return back home safe if they get on the plane. The Airline Business also slowed down. There were not a lot of people boarding on planes. A lot of Airline Companies were going to bankcruptcy because there were not enough sale of tickets. The fuel price also went up. The airlines also tried to secure the aircrafts even better than before. They made the cockpit door more heavier and made it not easy for the terrorists to get in and take control of the plane. But still the people could not trust it. American and United Airlines were the two Airlines who suffered most from it. These two airlines were the ones hijacked on 9/11. That is the main reason why some people cannot trust those companies anymore and stopped taking them.
Crimes based on Religion, Race has rapidly increased after the September 11 attacks. The Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) reported that the crimes on race has increased most in 2003 over 2002. It mostly affected people from Middle East and also Southeast Asia. These people complained of rising violence and discrimination against them. After 9/11 people from Middle East in New York City were very scared and got discriminated a lot. They were not accepted jobs they applied. They were also mentally abused by people from other race. They were teased and were called terrorists. The kids in School were also mentally abused by their friends. Based on an article it is also found that people from other states are afraid to come to New York City. They think people will discriminate them and call them Arab or Pakistani. Airport became a big issue after 9/11. Security check became very high. The securities check all your bags, belongings etc. The most racist thing is that when they see that there is Arab passengers on board they start checking more. They make them go through a special check from everybody. I think it is not fair at all. They cannot check them separately. I think should check them all together.
The immigration became very strict after the September 11, 2001. It became very hard for muslims to become an American citizen. The suspicion instantly changed for the Arab and muslim communities in the United States. The immigration always paid a sharp attention to muslim people especially when they were traveling. The laws for the immigration also got very strict. The harsh law enforcement reaction 9/11 overwhelmed muslims and especially Arab communities. People from immigration started going to people`s houses especially muslims to check if they are legal to live in this country or not.The also deported some illegal muslims back to their country right after 9/11. The police tortured and locked muslims if they found a little information. They locked them up without any proves. The Latin Americans immigrants also got affected at the same time. Most of them were Mexicans. The United States also secured the American and Mexican border. They feared that the terrorists will have a great chance in entering America through the Mexican border. The muslim charities were also targeted by the FBI. A number of them were closed down. The labor migration to America was reduced for a while. Student visa, labor migration visa was very hard to achieve. It was for very hard for muslim people to travel.