September 9, 2001 was the day when the United States faced the greatest terrorist attack in it’s history. Four commercial airplanes were hijacked by members of a terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, two airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The third airplane crashed into The Pentagon located in Arlington County, Virginia. And the fourth airplane crash landed in a field in rural Pennsylvania because the passengers on board stopped the hijackers just in time before the plane hit the White House, which was its original destination. Al-Qaeda, the group responsible for the attack, caused more than 3,000 deaths of American citizens including the hijackers. Many lives were taken away in
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President Bush started to give demands to Al-Qaeda, “Close terrorist training camps. Hand over leaders of the Al-Qaeda network, and return all foreign nationals, including American citizens unjustly detained in our country.”(Document 4) The Taliban leaders did not listen to the United States, as of a result President Bush issued a “war of terror”. This is when President Bush made his first mistake he tried to negotiate with the Taliban leaders who didn't listen, and he immediately wanted to start war with the Taliban regime instead of compromising. The war of terror later on had negative effects; the United States successfully succeed in eliminating the leader of Al-Qaeda but the cost in doing so was so enormous it has profoundly damaged the United States economy. In addition as in document 19 it states that a new department call Homeland Security cost around $40 billion just to be up and running. It was a waste of time and money because “it creates an overlap, taking employees from 22 existing agencies such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Coast Guard and the Border Control.”(Document 19) In a newspaper article it mentions “that roughly 1 of every 4 dollars spent on wartime contracting was wasted or misspent.”(Document 16) To sum up, the war of terror was a bad idea because it wasted billions of dollars and ruined the American
President Bush started to give demands to Al-Qaeda, “Close terrorist training camps. Hand over leaders of the Al-Qaeda network, and return all foreign nationals, including American citizens unjustly detained in our country.”(Document 4) The Taliban leaders did not listen to the United States, as of a result President Bush issued a “war of terror”. This is when President Bush made his first mistake he tried to negotiate with the Taliban leaders who didn't listen, and he immediately wanted to start war with the Taliban regime instead of compromising. The war of terror later on had negative effects; the United States successfully succeed in eliminating the leader of Al-Qaeda but the cost in doing so was so enormous it has profoundly damaged the United States economy. In addition as in document 19 it states that a new department call Homeland Security cost around $40 billion just to be up and running. It was a waste of time and money because “it creates an overlap, taking employees from 22 existing agencies such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Coast Guard and the Border Control.”(Document 19) In a newspaper article it mentions “that roughly 1 of every 4 dollars spent on wartime contracting was wasted or misspent.”(Document 16) To sum up, the war of terror was a bad idea because it wasted billions of dollars and ruined the American