This took a lot investigating, finally realizing Bin Laden had been hiding out in a compound 35 miles away from the Pakistani capital. This current event has given Americans closure and continues to help our national security. This doesn’t mean that the war is over. There are still terrorists. It means that we leave Al Qaeda without their original leader and it makes them weaker.
Nine days after the attack on September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush released an ultimatum statement to the Taliban government of Afghanistan to turn Bin Laden over but the Talibans resisted and asked for evidence. The United States refused and subsequently sent the military to invade Afghanistan using orchestrated airstrike over targeted areas on October 7, 2001 along with the United Kingdom and other allies. This action is known as the “War on Terror”. The War on Terror, mainly focused on the invasion of Afghanistan to find and remove the Talibans. President Bush then signed the Patriot Act into law after receiving permission from the Congress.
A retired Army Colonel who worked with Hasan by the name of Terry Lee expressed that Hasan talked about how he wanted President Obama to pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. (Breckenridge, 2009) Therefore based on retired Terry Lee’s remarks on Hasan feelings, Hasan’s motive with the Ft. Hood shootings is to garner support for stopping American war occupancy in Muslim countries Like Afghanistan and Iraq. Like other individuals who share the same feelings as Hasan, supporting the Muslin or Islamic ideals is something that they would die or do something extreme for. So when Hasan, received orders to deploy to Afghanistan he became emotional and felt it necessary to react to keep from fighting against his Muslim
Truman made some decisions that ultimately had a huge effect in the build up to the cold war. When plans were made for the division of power after WWII, Truman originally opposed America ganging up against Russia and said he would keep the agreements that were made with them. But Truman wanted to appear decisive and tough and he was not prepared to accept any deal if he could not get the majority of it his way. When Truman went to the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, he went there only to advance American Interest and he believed that the atomic bomb was the way to do this. Though this treat he was able to have his way at the Yalta conference.
There is not enough national interest in such actions for the United States to sacrifice the American lives. The Afghanistan might have been seen as a country opened for a democracy, but as the attacks from 11 September showed, the American view of the spread of democracy is not viewed by the affected nations in the same light. Probably because these interventions had not yet ended by the time Kirkpatrick finished her book, she focused only briefly on these issues. She did nevertheless consider the US involvement as potentially unsuccessful. In the case of Afghanistan, there would be a point of trying to institute a democratic regime if it was right after the won Afghan war from 1980’s.
Osama Bin Laden, who helped to create this notorious group, was a leader, religious fanatic, and soldier to the Islamic cause. In the following paragraphs I am going to discuss the origins of Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and what countermeasures it might take to put an end to tyranny. Osama Bin Laden was born on July 30, 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia according to the CIA in Washington DC, but due to the fact that it was not a common practice to register births in Saudi Arabia at that time that date is controversial. His bother Yeslem Bin Laden stated in an interview with the London Sunday Times that he was either born in 1952 or 1953 (Gunaratna). His was the seventeenth son of fifty-two; his father was Muhammad Bin Laden from Yemen and his mother Hamida from Damascus, Syria.
Even to this day, 9/11 is one of the most respected days in our lives. On the date of September 20, 2001, former President George W. Bush took the podium to address the tragedy. It all started off in a melancholy tone, but he also sounded extremely determined. He did the best that he could that those lives were not forgotten. The quote “After all that has just passed, all the lives taken, and all the possibilities and hopes that died with them, it is natural to wonder if America’s future is one of fear.” was the beginning of Bush’s speech to all the people of America.
Pearl Harbor Many people think that Franklin D. Roosevelt and his closest aids knew that there would be an attack on Pearl Harbor in December of the year 1941. Other people think that Roosevelt had no idea about the attack. A certain amount of the population seem to ask themselves, “what kind of president allows their own country and their own people to be attacked, when knowing it could have been prevented.” Robert B. Stinnett, a research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and the author of the book, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor quotes the chief cryptographer for the pacific fleet who said, “ It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country.” Robert B. Stinnett says that Franklin D. Roosevelt knew about the attack and had
For instance the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001after the September 11 attacks is a good example of narrow perception. The United States wanted to duplicate its two hundred year old democracy at home, and transfer it to Afghan society. The results were and continue to be disastrous. In comparison to the United States, 96 percent of Afghans are uneducated. By any measure, democracy is a process and takes many years to develop by the willingness of the society, not by forcing it upon society.
Tianli Wang Mr. Johnson Contemporary Issue 3/31/2013 10th anniversary of America’s invasion of Iraq 10 years ago, Tuesday, March 19, 2003, Washington led coalition attacked Iraq with "shock and awe", launching a war that lit up Baghdad with torrential explosions and toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, and that marked the beginning of the Iraq War. December 15, 2011, the war in Iraq ended officially Thursday with a flag-lowering ceremony, and it makes the Iraq War third longest war (after the War in Afghanistan and the Vietnam War) ever in American history. (Nowicki) 10 years later, during the 10th anniversary of America’s invasion of Iraq, it is the time for people to consider the cost and gain in the Iraq war. Although some people thought