When 9/11 occurred, I was in first grade. I remember everyone running around and rushing to evacuate my class as soon as possible. I remember people running in the streets, panicking. Looking back on it now, it seems unreal. Being a New Yorker, terrorism in America is a subject that hits close to home. This war began as a way to retaliate for the attack on the United States and because what Osama Bin Laden did to us was so gruesome, our country feels the need to respond in acts of the same magnitude. The film Zero Dark Thirty offers a look inside the operation of taking down Osama Bin Laden and ultimately ending the war. The movie doesn’t hold back, even having a torture scene at the very beginning. The way America treated the attack on the World Trade Center was in a “you hit us, we hit you” type of fashion. I’m not saying it wasn’t completely out of the question to counterattack, I understand where the government was coming from in this situation. However, it just created more problems. We got stuck in a war that is still going on. A new age of racism has blossomed. This type of violence in order to resolve an issue is then being shown to Americans through the media. It creates an unwarranted hatred for another race and religion. It also teaches the younger generation who may not completely understand the war or even have been there on September 11th that this is how The United States deals with it’s conflicts.
I couldn't of said it better myself! It's crazy how much our country tries so hard to say to kids"Don't be violent" or "Don't solve your problems with violence" when that is how our country solves their problems. If we want our younger generation to solve their problems without violence then we need to do the same thing. Imagine how much confusion they must have. I know the government had their reasons, but like you said it really created more problems and were those problems worth it? I'm not sure.
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