9/11 and Hindsight

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This paper uses four articles that were written BEFORE September 11, 2001 to study why exactly the Taliban and other purveyors of Jihad found it necessary to attack the West, to attack the United States of America. The writer looks at such factors as anti-female sentiment, anti-Western feelings, overall desensitization to violence, and the need for a separate global identity. This essay tries to account for how and why terrorists did and do what it is that they do.

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"Watching those planes fly into buildings and a field that morning is something that will live in the minds of those who were alive that day for eternity. Crashes and jumpers and pleas for help from family members and emergency crews tugged at our heartstrings, and the video replays of these events still do tub at us. Even now, nearly four years later, we are still asking the same questions of why it happened or how it happened. Yet, if we look at some of the "experts'" views that were published beforehand, we might get both an idea of what went wrong long ago and why these acts were carried out."

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