Throughout his whole speech, he uses an anger and disparaging tome to reflect Bush’s point of view. Overall, George Bush uses emotional appeal, metaphors, and tone to portray Al Qaeda as iniquitous freedom haters which persuades the audience to recognise his contention and accept his point of view. Americans are depicted as victims of war from the September 11th terrorist incident with George Bush’s speech. An anecdote is used in the first paragraph to portray this: “...Americans have known the casualties of war--but not at the centre of a great city on a peaceful morning. Americans have known surprise attacks—but never before on thousands of civilians.
The mere mentioning of it’s name¾still to this day, carries a huge impact on not just Americans’ hearts, but the hearts of our foreign allies. Like a spell cast out by a witch, the renouncement of the September 11 terrorist attacks causes the hairs of many, to stand on end. Even though the events that took place on 9/11 passed and is done with; the shadows which materialized that day still carries on¾like a blanket of fear being superimposed over the globe. As discussed in my English Composition college course, a new type of patriotism came into existence¾patriotism brought to the extremist level. This new type of patriotism that plagued the lands¾infecting many¾brought us Americans some much needed unification¾but at the expense of living in fear, out-casting the ones whom stand out from the norm.
Adjusting to Terrorism Stephanie Nelson CJA/454 Adjusting to Terrorism The United States government can put several procedures in place to reduce, but not eliminate terrorist attacks on the United States homeland. Unfortunately, terrorist have overcame all of the physical barriers the United States has put in place. However, the challenges America faces today on fighting terrorism are cost versus benefit and freedom versus security. A variety of proposals which could reduce terrorist plots against the United States would cause controversy among politicians and civil right activist. Most of the government’s intelligence information can be found on computer or in paper files.
On the other hand, I think that our government has the right to do everything in it’s power to ensure our safety, including spying on those in countries who have threatened our own. If the NSA could have taken a closer look or had more information about Hazmi and Midhar’s plan to travel to the United States, their trip would have never been successful. The NSA needs to focus their attention more to the other countries instead of basically wasting all of their time with U.S. citizens, and maybe slips like letting terrorist into our homeland wouldn’t happen. They are getting their systems blown up with information that is useless to them from Americans. If they didn’t have to spend the time to sort through all of America’s “evidence,” then they would probably be able to seek out and confirm the terroristic threats and evidence coming from outside of the
We can control our own actions whether they are right or wrong and be held accountability for them. We can teach others from right and wrong. We cannot control the actions of others even if they are good, but we can definitely hold them accountability for the wrong actions. Having more information about the timeline and events of 9-11 makes me wonder if the President would have acted on some of the information would so many people have died that day. President George W. Bush declared, “Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.
He does many things to bring about the rise of the people and the fall of the tyrannical government. There are many different themes and ideas present in this movie. The main theme is totalitarianism and invasion of privacy. Although that type of government was prompted by the extreme fear of the people, as Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” . The people gave up their privacy and most of their rights in order to get what they considered safety, and this is a prominent theme in the movie.
Governmental groups, that we were at war against, were considering the decision to use this type of weapon in order to defeat their enemies in larger numbers. With their belief that this was the right way to win the war against us is a case in point of relativism. Majority of Americans viewed this method of war as wrong. Goodman also states, “Wholesale murder is wrong, then, not just for its scale but also for willfully negating individuality, typing its victims, and stirring hatred against the putative failings of the
Using two or three examples, critically explain how the tactics and strategies used by terrorists have evolved since the 1990’s. Terrorist activity has always been a threat within society, however when acts of terrorism are carried out the vulnerability of modern society is broadcast worldwide. The tactics and strategies that have been employed by terrorists since the 1990’s are adapting to suit the modern age of terrorism we see today. The modern terrorist we are confronted with appears to challenge the foundations of what we once believed to be true and in the process seems to be more lethal than ever before. Increased use of the Internet by terrorist groups is a strategy that has been utilized more efficiently since the 1990’s due to the increased reliance on technology.
Our country is under constant threat by terrorists and crime organizations, and our government is using communications technology to help combat them. But just how closely can the government monitor you? The movie Eagle Eye presents a world where this power has gotten out of control and backfired on society. In the movie, a top secret supercomputer known as ARIIA (Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst), uses a network of cameras to aid the government in detecting possible terror threats and violence beforehand (Tuynman par. 1).
On one side of this choice, innocent Americans right to be left alone is threatened. Yet on the other hand this data could lead to the capture of terrorist enemies and potentially save millions of lives. The telcom companies need to also remain within the law on these issues. Politically, is this constitutional? Did congress overstep its bounds in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 2001?