9/11

9/11

1.       Since the tragedy of 9/11, has our country come closer together?

2.       Was the US at fault for 9/11?

3.       why does Sontag view the terrorist as cowards?

I agreed with Susan Sontag that the attack on the United States was not justified and that it was not the United States fault for the attack on this country.  Sontag discusses how the attack on the United States was not to get back at us or to get even with us, it was seen as making a statement. The terrorists wanted to show that they are stronger than what we think and also this mass murder of innocent people show how they don’t care at all for what they caused. Although the US was on bad terms with Afghanistan, this cold blooded attack was not justified and the US did not deserve this at all. There is never a justifiable reason to kill innocent people.  The terrorists do not believe in a lot of things that the US believes in. Sontag states that it was “an attack on modernity and capitalism”.

Sontag see these terrorists as cowards because they won’t show their faces and they are fighting out of reach from us; up in the sky. They are also “willing to kill themselves in order to kill others”. Why not just kill the other people and save yourself? They don’t want to have to deal with the retaliation, so they basically get rid of themselves and whatever was to follow after the attack. They won’t have to watch us grieve and mourn over the lives that were lost; nothing happens to them. They won’t have to ‘pay the consequences for their actions of the attack on the US. They just kill themselves so they won’t have to deal with any of it.