On the morning of September 11, 2001 in New York City, everything seemed perfectly normal. However, on that morning, a passenger plane crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings. Another plane crashed into the second one. A third plane flew right into the Pentagon building. A fourth plane was headed for Washington, D.C. However, the passengers on the plane found out that the plane was about to crash and kill them, so they took control and crashed it themselves, far away from Washington. They were all dead. Along with them, everyone in the airplanes and World Trade Center and around had been killed. Some people in the Pentagon were also dead. In all, nearly 3000 people were killed in the attacks. The attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001 became known as 9/11, and the worst terrorist attack in US history. A horrible way for US to celebrate the turn of the century.
After a series of searches, the US found out that the group who was involved in the attacks was a terrorist group called al-Qaeda, led by a man named Osama bin Laden. We also found out many of al-Qaeda's members were from and trained in a very poor country in southern Asia called Afghanistan. US military forces invaded Afghanistan. US made lots of progress in fighting the Afghan troops and defending the Afghan and US citizens. Afghanistan had been ruled by a religiously fanatical government called the Taliban, which made poor laws and decisions that made life for the people almost impossible to live happily. "The US military overthrew the Taliban government (1)", and a democracy was adopted by Afghanistan. Another achievement made in the war was "the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (2)". It took many years to find him. He had snuck into the nation of Pakistan, where he hid for years. The US gathered information for years, and finally found out his location. US Navy troops were sent to Pakistan to find him. Eventually, he was killed. Al-Qaeda chose their new member shortly after, who was also killed. The US military has suffered casualties during the war. One of the war veterans killed during the war was "football player Pat Tillman, who left the NFL and went to serve in the Army in Afghanistan. He was killed by friendly fire (3)." The news was then censored by the government when they thought it would scare people into refusing to serve in the military, or it would mislead people into thinking that friendly fire is intentional and people from same forces kill each other. It was later released, and the amount of people who enlisted did not drop. Another casualty was Navy veteran Michael Murphy. Murphy and his group were in a scene involving fire in 2005. Murphy then exposed himself to the fire to alert the US troops, and died. He then received the Medal of Honor for his action. Very recently, a ship was named after him, on the day he would have turned 35. Many others have lost their lives while serving in Afghanistan.
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During our searching on the attacks, our other eye focused on Iraq, another poor nation in Asia. We had believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Our hypothesis included backup information from when the US military went to fight against Iraq "the previous decade (4)", who had invaded and taken control of the smaller nation of Kuwait. This was known as the Gulf War. US then invaded Iraq. Iraq was led for decades by dictator Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein had done many corrupt acts during his leadership, such as violently invade the nation of Kuwait, and take control of it. That led to the Gulf War that US was involved in. By now Hussein was hiding, and it was obvious that many people didn't want him to be in power. Eventually he was caught by the US forces and executed on live The US has suffered casualties in Iraq. One of the casualties was "Chance Phelps, who died in a firing scene. (5)" The film Taking Chance described how his body was brought back to his home to get buried. Another casualty was soldier "Ross McGinnis, who was in an automobile with a group of soldiers in a combat scene at the time he died. A grenade was thrown at his group. McGinnis jumped at the grenade, and his body absorbed the explosion. He was the only one of the group who was killed in the explosion. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his action. (6)" Another incident (not death) was with soldier Brendan Marocco. Marocco survived a bomb explosion, but was severely injured. All four of his limbs were removed. "US President Barack Obama removed many troops from Iraq recently, so he could increase troops in Afghanistan (7)". He said on a recent interview in the Tonight Show with Jay Leno that the war in Iraq should end sooner. Probably because Iraq has so far done better than Afghanistan with the new democracy, and because the Taliban has left Afghanistan in more ruins than Saddam Hussein's dictatorship has left Iraq.
The War on Terror has helped and hurt the US in many ways. When the US started going through economic problems, the country's ability to spend on itself became hard due to the amount of money going towards the troops. They had to borrow large amounts of money from other countries, leading to a very high international debt, that could have been easily paid if so much money wasn't going towards the military. The War on Terror also affects the reputation of the US. Many nations could think that US is an imperial nation, because of invading two countries in two years. US is not imperial. Large amounts of research and debating is done by US before any serious decision is made, such as if it is right to invade a country. US has helped itself and other countries, because by killing and imprisoning al-Qaeda members and taking their equipment, they are reducing al-Qaeda's ability to lead another attack in another place. Does this mean all cities in the world have to set up no-fly zones and set up police everywhere in case a terrorist will attack? No! Completely unnecessary. Terrorist groups are definitely things that governments and militarizes should look out for, but no need for paranoia. Putting a no-fly zone over a city will not be helpful. There are many reasons why al-Qaeda has attacked, and preventing these reasons from happening among the people of the world will help prevent terrorism. We don't know when a terrorist will strike in the future, but to prevent it from occurring, we can improve child education, security, policing, and anything else that would reduce terrorism in any way. "The War on Terror is ongoing with both wars (8)(9)", and the US has done a good job during it, but it should end sooner.
(1)=Obama: Osama bin Laden Dead (Youtube)
(2)=Wikipedia (Article: War on Terror)
(3)=Wikipedia (Article: Pat Tillman)
(4)=Wikipedia (Article: 1990)
(5)=Taking Chance (movie)
(6)=Wikipedia (Article: Ross A. McGinnis)
(7)=Wikipedia (Article: Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012)
(8)=Wikipedia (Article: War in Afghanistan (2001-present))
(9)=Wikipedia (Article: Iraq War)
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