9/11 Demonstrates Poor Reasoning

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I found an article on September 11, 2001 attacks that I believe demonstrates poor reasoning. The article is dated October 2001, and is from the New York magazine. Therefore, the author obviously was still affected by the events of that fateful day. The attacks that happened on September 11, 2001 affected everyone's reasoning, however it is obvious when you are an author for a magazine right out of the state itself. He based his entire article on the assumption that those in the Senate thwarted the efforts to give financial aid to those affected on purpose. Reasoning may be based on assumptions, but this author takes it a little too far. He assumes that they did it on purpose because his sources say that one of the Senators is "anti-New York".

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