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September 11, HELP PLEASE!?

In what way do you think that September 11th changed US Foreign Policy? How will this affect you in the future?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    This sounds like an exam question. It is a question that could require 2 blue books to complete. However the short answer is as follows.

    Prior to 9/11 The United States (as a collective) looked at terrorism as a distant problem "across the pond." This was despite attacks on United States interests on multiple occasions. September 11, 2001 forced a change in that way of thinking. That the change was long overdue is an argument for another day. The fact is a wholesale change in the way view terrorism has taken place. The result of said change is the Global War on Terrorism. This change will go far toward protecting us all. We have the terrorists on the run. If we fight them abroad it is much better than fighting them in our own backyard. Nobody wants this but the terrorist started it and the United States will finish it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well it just so happened to be linked to the land of oil and missing billions.

    What will affect us in the future is the globalization of the whole world; they want no boundaries, obedience and one religion provided by the master 'think tank'.

    Because of this event we are being monitored as we compute. Hey wait, what about the open borders? The MS13 gang that 'the Scho_l of A_ericas' taught some are now ushering some not so well-intended sorts rright into this country some want to break down then dominate.

    PLEASE no 'criminal database' for answering this question with info I have picked up from other sources. What do you want me to do LIE? however, WARN us if you are compiling a list to fill those detention camps!

  • Liza
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    In 1990's, after the Soviet defeat, generals like Musharraf dispatched thousands of those fighters to wage a guerilla campaign in Kashmir. Many trained across the border in Afghanistan, in the same camps that Al Qaeda had set up unde the Taliban.

    After 9/11 Musharraf promised Washington that he would cut off support for such groups, including the Talibans. Early on, he authorized the arrests of several top Qaeda leaders in Pakistani cities, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the MASTERMIND OF THE Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and Aba Zubaydah, a top Qaeda orgranizer. But Musharraf's efforts have always been somewhat halfhearted, constrained by the deep sympathies that many of his countrymen have for jihadists. For decades Pakistanis were taught that the guerillas were Muslim heroes, fighting for national honor and security. Such loyalties cannot be turned off like a tap. Several of the militants' onetime spymasters, both inside and outside the government, maintain links to their former charges. The security services will go after certain figures, particularly foreign Qaeda fighters, but ask others simply to lie low. Many officials , even many ordinary citizens, still think the jihadists should be preserved for future use as a strategic weapon, especially against India, long after America's War on Terror is over.

    "In Washington, a senior administrative official involved in counterterrorism said U.S. intelligence is chronically fearful that Islamists might get hold of nuclear material, equipment of know-how in Pakistan. He recalled that after 9/11, a group of rogue Pakistani nuclear scientists met with Osama Bin Laden. "Given that history, we continue to look at this issue very closely." he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue."

    "The most Dangerous nation in the World isn't Iraq...IT'S PAKISTAN...."

    Source(s): Newsweek, Oct. 29, 2007 issue
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    For decades, our foreign policy was driven by fear of the USSR. In the wake of its fall, our institutions floundered for lack of focus. The events of September 11th provided a new supervillain to fill the vacuum.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Before Sept. 11, the United States did not indiscriminately

    attack other sovereign countries without provocation. Obviously that is no longer the case.

    ;-o

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As far as I know, it has made immigration to US very srict and hard. And it has increased the burden for the immigration process. And it has placed maximum security in its airports (which increases the burden and rush in airports)!

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