Causes and Effects of September 11

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This paper examines how the terrorist attacks changed the world and the way America looks at the world, but they also changed the way the world looks at America. It also tries to answer the question: What were the causes leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11 and what have been the effects of the attacks?

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"While the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. were a surprising wake up call to most of the nation, there are many who believe the government should have seen the attacks coming. One terrorism expert notes, "Terrorism is a problem the U.S. government has been contending with in an increasingly organized fashion since 1968, when Palestinian terrorists began hijacking aircraft and the modern era of international terrorism was born" (Schoenfeld 21). Terrorists kept their attacks away from American soil for the most part, and so, to most Americans, the danger of attack seemed remote until that day. Previous attacks, however, gave a hint of what world terrorist organizations were planning. The nerve gas attack in Tokyo, the bombing of the marine barracks in Iran, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole all illustrated the power and intent of the terrorist community. Expert Schoenfeld continues, "That these same terrorists might attempt once again to hit targets in the American homeland was an obvious possibility" (Schoenfeld 21). These early attacks indicated how terrorists were evolving, and how their attacks were escalating."

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