Post 9/11: Motivations and Responses

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This paper asserts that, if Americans are to avoid being made the villains in the Middle East, changes must be made in its foreign policy, such as insisting that Israel and Palestine make peace and hiring skilled American ad agencies to foster good will towards the U.S.A. The author contends that Washington's present homeland security policy, shaped by panic-driven regulations on ill-crafted mandates just because some of the hijackers had entered the country on student visas to attend U.S. flight schools, is harming America's broader foreign policy. This paper contends that Americans' reactions to 9/11 were to donate too much blood, for businesses to get rid of people they would like to get rid of anyway, and to become nervous if someone from a Middle Eastern country was their neighbor sitting next to their airplane seat.

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"Since September 11, America has been on a war footing, with armed soldiers standing guard at our nation's airports, enhanced security at nuclear power plants and other vulnerable locations, and military jets flying combat air patrols in order to intercept and shoot down hijacked commercial aircraft. The legal climate has also been affected by the events of September 11. The President has announced that suspected terrorists who are not U.S. citizens may be tried in special military tribunals lacking many of the due process standards of American criminal courts. For example, Ejaz Haider -- the editor of one of Pakistan's most influential newspapers and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution -- was stopped outside the Washington think tank by two armed, plainclothes officers from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service."

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