The Meaning of 9/11 Dialectical journal #4

       I.            The Meaning of 9/11 Dialectical journal #4

    II.            Berman, Morris. “The Meaning of 9/11.” They Say I Say. Eds. Birkenstein, Cathy, Russel Durst, and Gerald Graff. New York: New York/ London, 2009. 442-458. Print.

   III.            This short article “The Meaning of 9/11” talks about how the true meaning which the United States, as a country, went into war. In addition, it talks about how the Nation’s Leaders lied and convinced its citizens that war was the answer to their problems when not even the citizens thought so themselves.

  IV.            “The next step, then, was to make up a story and sell it to the American people; the State of the Union address of January 2002” (page 445).

§  “Talk about bringing ‘democracy’ to Iraq was also PR; it also played well to the gullible American public” (page 451).

     V.           

If the President would have never lied in his State of the Union address most likely the United States would not be in war with Iraq. Furthermore, not only did the President lie but he invaded the wrong country.  Then, he lied again to cover for his mistakes.

Can you imagine a country with a money surplus and no hedge fund tax break for the top one percent? I can, it was called the pre-Bush administration. The war we, as a country are in, is nothing more than a futile effort by our government not to adhere to their mistakes as well as try to control the oil supply that comes out of Iraq & Afghanistan, nothing more.

The way that the author states, that we, the United Sates, as a nation of diverse population, were dumb enough to believe in our Government at the time of war. The lies about the United States bringing democracy to another country seem ideal right?

Well I wouldn’t doubt that at that time the country was already in despair about being in war as a result of the downward spiraling economic nature of the United States at that given time.  Additionally, in order for the government to keep the troops over in Iraq & Afghanistan they needed to lie. Otherwise, the government did not have the full support of its American people.

 This is something that the “war against terrorism” really desperately needed.