What is the single greatest change in America in the 5 yeras since 9-11?

Question

And how much has really changed?

Answer 1

That 43 lbs of heroin was found on board the Lear Jet owned by Wally Hilliard, the owner of Atta’s flight school, just three weeks after Atta enrolled – the biggest seizure ever in Central Florida – was just bad luck. That Hilliard was not charged shows how specious the claims for conspiracy truly are.

That Hilliard’s plane had made 30-round trips to Venezuela with the same passengers who always paid cash, that the plane had been supplied by a pair of drug smugglers who had also outfitted CIA drug runner Barry Seal, and that 9/11 commissioner Richard ben-Veniste had been Seal’s attorney before Seal’s murder, shows nothing but the lengths to which conspiracists will go to draw sinister conclusions.

Reports of insider trading on 9/11 are false, because the SEC investigated and found only respectable investors who will remain nameless involved, and no terrorists, so the windfall profit-taking was merely, as ever, coincidental.

That heightened security for the World Trade Centre was lifted immediately prior to the attacks illustrates that it always happens when you least expect it.

That Hani Hanjour, the pilot of Flight 77, was so incompetent he could not fly a Cessna in August, but in September managed to fly a 767 at excessive speed into a spiraling, 270-degree descent and a level impact of the first floor of the Pentagon, on the only side that was virtually empty and had been hardened to withstand a terrorist attack, merely demonstrates that people can do almost anything once they set their minds to it.

Answer 2

The September 11th attacks were more successful than the perpetrators could possible have hoped, though perhaps not in the way they might have hoped. The United States is taking its first steps on the path to becoming an oppressive, totalitarian regime. I don't want to paint too rosy a picture of pre-September 11th 2001 America, nor too dire a picture of the country after the attacks, but changes have occurred, and not for the better.

There's nothing you can really point a finger at, beyond the wire-tapping debates (which are essentially meaningless), and the Iraq war, which might have happened regardless of the attacks. Those things are only indicators, symptoms of the larger, more difficult to define problem.

The problem is the attitude and mentality of our government and us, the citizens. We've become a fearful, exclusionary, angry people. We seem to think that, through brute force, we can overcome this problem. If we can deploy enough troops, create enough technology, and pray enough for God to smite our enemies, we can put an end to all threats to ourselves in the world. That kind of thinking only leads in one direction: imperialism. The only way for America to be safe forever from the world is to control the world. But it doesn't stop there. America must keep itself safe not only from external threats, but from threats within. And that also only leads in one direction: totalitarianism. Unless something changes, and soon, we will go from a could-have-been egalitarian democracy/republic to a totalitarian empire.

We're not there yet. We may never get there. It's like when a tornado watch is issued: there is no tornado yet, but conditions are right for one to develop. We have been through two world wars defending ourselves and helping to defend the world from the exact thing that we may become.

So what is the biggest change? We've traded our ideals for the illusion of security. Freedom has become an empty slogan. Justice has taken a backseat to revenge. War is the only option, instead of the final option. We are on the way to making all the bad things that people say about our country true.

Answer 3

Our mind set about personal freedoms has changed a lot. We now have much more invasive laws and we have given up a lot of freedoms that we once had in the hope that it will make us more secure.

We as a society will continue down this path in the future as we become more scared and this will lead to erosion of our very core value of religious freedom. This country will eventually become the very type of country our forefathers left.

This country was built on religious freedom. It was created for religious freedom. It will be destroyed when it takes away religious freedom. We will make a complete circle and return to a country that arrests thousands of people for their religious beliefs.

Watch and you will see. It was all predicted in Daniel and Revelation as long as 2600 years ago. Is that not amazing? The US is the lamb like beast with two horns that comes up out of the land and then speaks like a dragon and forms an image to the first beast, or the little horn power. Pretty cool stuff, don't you think.

Did you realize the Bible talks about the USA? If you want to study all of this go to amazingfacts.org. It is all there. God will bless you if you search for these prophecies and you will become less fearful about the future.

Are you adventurous enough to check out the facts? They will amaze you, guarenteed.

Answer 4

The Twin Towers are gone. I think people are just as paranoid, confused, uncaring, angry and impatient as they were before 9/11. The only difference is now we have a symbol to look at to explain it. So the single greatest change is the buildings being gone. Nothing more, nothing less.

Answer 5

FEAR of the United States Federal Government. Pre 9/11, most people were annoyed by it, pissed off at it, sick of it, etc; but didn't really fear it. Now they do. People used to say things like, "It's a free country, what are they going to do about it?" Nobody talks like that anymore. They don't dare. By and large, people have no faith in the government to protect their rights, little to no faith in the democratic process, very little belief that the government is working in the best interest of the people, and view the government as an enemy of the people rather than "We the People".

Answer 6

A BIG boeing 757 24feet from the front made a 16 foot hole in the pentagon - People have started beliving in miracles .. I think thats the single greatest change in America since 9-11. People believe whatever the government says - who to hate .. whos the criminal .. whos the bad guys .. people believe in miracles now!

Answer 7

The realization of our vulnerability and the focus on radicalized Islamic enemies.

We're still not doing enough. Especially on the border.

PS And yes, on a partisan level, we now see how far people will go to trash this country and undermine its war effort, to satisfy their Bush hatred and show their inability to lose elections gracefully. They say Iraq was a distraction from the war on terror, but they don't want Bush to fight that war either, turning intercepts of enemy communications and detention of enemy combatants into crimes. Was FDR a war criminal?

Yes, I think some (not all, but some) of Bush's opponents WANT us to fail. No doubt you disagree, strongly. But we're both intelligent people (apparently - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt) and my beliefs and opinions are as sincerely held as yours.

Answer 8

World opinion of the US government. Started at an all time high on 9/11 and has dropped to an all time low at the present time.

Answer 9

of direction it could have handed off on Gore's watch. Clinton ought to have taken Osama Bin laden while he had the prospect. extra, Al Gore is fat and happy taking money from the ignorant left who have faith that climate replace has by no skill handed off interior the history of the international, with the aid of fact they weren't alive to work out it. EDIT: "Gore could probably have stored up the surveillance of Bin laden as pronounced with the help of the outgoing Clinton administration. lack of expertise is yours." No, sweetheart, Clinton had of project to take OSL ineffective or alive....and handed on the prospect.

Answer 10

the hatred,,,, fiscal conservatives are so ashamed that their president was on vacation for the month before 9-11,, basically asleep at the helm,, and the Iraq invasion catastrophe,,,, so they have to spin a web of deceit and lies to beat the Democrats up for providing America with the facts, they will continue doing this till November 2008.....