Simply Evil: A Decade After 9/11 Tragedy Analysis

America’s Tragedy: Is it Real or Fake? Over a decade later, the American people will never forget the tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001. The falling of the World Trade Center has changed the world forever. Initially the world was stunned, however after America picked up what was left of the country; hundreds of conspiracy theorists believed that the destruction of the World Trade Center was not a war on terror, but a planned attack with an ulterior motive. In the articles, “Simply Evil: A Decade After 9/11” and “9/11=False Flag Attack”, conspiracy theorists Christopher Hitchens and Elizabeth Woodrow argue the “truth” behind the 9/11 attacks. In the article, “Simply Evil: A Decade Later”, Hitchens relies heavily on ethos and logos. He argues that the attacks on 9/11 is based off of two theories. On the other hand in the article, “9/11=False Flag Attack”, Woodrow focuses heavily on pathos and logos. She argues that the government is behind the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon. Although the articles differ, both rely on rhetoric in order to expose the “truth” behind 9/11. In the article, “Simply Evil: A Decade After 9/11”, Hitchens relies heavily on his ethos, as an award-wining columnists and author, and logos in order to …show more content…
From prior knowledge on the American government and the commission reports that were released pertaining to 9/11, Hitchens is able to narrow down the attacks into two logical claims. He states that, “the 9/11 atrocities were in some way deserved or made historically more explicable by the many crimes of past American foreign policy. Either that, or—to recall the contemporary comments of the "Reverends" Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson—a punishment from heaven for American sinfulness” (1). He uses his ethical background and logos to create his reasoning as “two ways of thinking, one of them ostensibly “left” and the other “right”