Write a 9 page essay on Post 9/11 Bombing Perspectives.After having witnessed what has befallen their country, the United States began to take terrorism more seriously that it had ever before. Here wa

Write a 9 page essay on Post 9/11 Bombing Perspectives.

After having witnessed what has befallen their country, the United States began to take terrorism more seriously that it had ever before. Here was an enemy without face that directly challenged the might of the country responsible for turning the two world wars in the favor of a free world. The American Heritage Dictionary defines terrorism as "the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments,

often for ideological or political reasons". Everybody now knew what the word truly meant especially what the term 'force' implied.

The United States spared no time in hunting down the members of the al-Qaeda. It began in Afghanistan where the Taliban regime proudly sponsored the extremists. Why you ask According to , "one man's terrorist may be another man's freedom fighter". The country then proceeded with dismantling the Saddam Hussein regime whose reports indicate to be a major violator of human rights. (Combs, 2007. Gunaratna, 2003).

The Iraqi struggle has been the focal point of criticism of the Bush administration. The war waged not on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan alone. It was also being fought in the mind and hearts of every American (Pillar, 2004. North O., Horn S, Horn S.A., 2004). After 6 years of the event, the U.S. is now split between those who considers it best that the country changes its mode from search-and-destroy to build-and-move on and those who deem it proper that the fight must carry on. They voice out their concerns in position papers, placards and editorials.

In this paper, we will be analyzing two editorials whose content has much to say regarding what should be done now 5 years after the event. The purpose of this paper is not so much as to determine which is right or which is wrong. Rather, I am bound to critically analyze which is more effective of the two. It becomes necessary then to determine the strengths and weakness of both editorials and then come up with a conclusion which paper is more convincing and why.

2.0 The Two Editorials and their Thesis

After more than 6 years since the 9/11 bombing occurred, the war in Iraq is still technically being waged. To this day, we still here of the loss of lives of soldiers and civilians due to skirmishes, mortar fire and suicide bombings. Six years after the Twin Towers literally burned and collapsed to the ground, vehicles and other properties are still being destroyed in the fields of Iraq. The US led war on terror continues not only in Iraq but also in other nations such as Indonesia whose Islamic populace has been the hostage of their own extremist kin. (North, 2003)

To this day, the events of the September 11 bombings are being commemorated. It has become somewhat of a tradition where the nation grieve for their lost loved ones, lost countrymen and to a lesser extent, lost dignity. However, while it is true that is a time of remembrance, it has also become a time for retrospect. When we grieve for someone, our passions takes the best of us but reason still