The Gift That Keeps Giving Thomas L. Friedman Essay

Question A.3 Living in pain is normal to some people, living in a world filled with anxiety is common to most Humans, but living in a world in which we fear doing what is normal to us in our daily lives is strange. Thomas L. Friedman is only one in a few who was able to speak against the direction the United States is heading since the after effects of the September 11 attacks., he does this in his essay, “The Gift that Keeps Giving,” published in the New York Times . We are living in an era in which we fear being patriotic, because we are afraid that a terrorist might hate our identity or where we come from and do something that will jeopardize us and our homeland. I agree with Thomas L. Friedman in the way that I admire his courage and his honesty when he criticizes how weak the United States becomes when it is in a time of crisis. The second half of this class contributed to my …show more content…
Friedman, in the way that he is honest about how weak the United States becomes when in times of crisis. He does not sugar coat his opinion to make himself sound appealing to those who are patriotic. He states that the only individuals who could and have prevented any other terrorist attacks, are residents and citizens themselves. America is beginning to focus more on their own well being, and is beginning to forget how events, related to terrorism, affect other countries. “The time and money Republicans forced is to spend debating whether the Benghazi, Libya, consulate attack was a terrorist plot or a spontaneous event-while focusing not a whit on the real issue” (Friedman). Special organizations created by the government in order to prevent a terrorist attack is useless and waist too much money to be funded for doing nothing. We practically waist money on the improbable, that is foreshadowed with government and not science. In other words that money should be spent on the prevention of damage caused by Global Warming, which has scientific