Has 9/11 changed international relations forever?

Answer 1

The real terrorist is the Bush administration. Yes they have damaged international relations. They have damaged mother earth. They could care less about global warming and it's quite pathitic.

Articles of Impeachment of President George W. Bush
and Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of hundereds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnaping, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court

Answer 2

9/11 hasn't changed international relations in the slightest. States continue to interact in exactly the same way they did before a terrorist act occurred in the US. The realist strain on international relations tells us that since the Pelopennisian War and earlier, sovereign powers (such as cities, tribes, states etc) have always acted the in the same self-serving ways. The key features of the international system remain the same:

1. Its anarchic (there is no world govt to stop states declaring war)
2. All great powers possess the military ability to hurt or destroy others
3. States cannot be certain about the intentions of other states
4. Survival is the primary goal of states
5. States are rational actors

Since 9/11, none of the above has changed. International relations will always be constrained and influenced by these factors - the terrorist attack was not powerful enough to affect the basic tenets of the international relations and very few International Relations scholars have suggested anything different.

Answer 3

Not quite. The American government's reaction to it has.

I don't like the idea of people verbally bashing the American people just because their of their government's mistakes. Their sons and daughters are dying too.

Relations have soured because Bush has completley abandoned the Israel/Palestine question. If there is even going to be a tentative peace there then it HAS to be the U.S. that mediates. Clinton made giant strides when Arafat was playing around and making silly demands but George did not pick up the baton.

Iraq was and is a complete mess. They have gone in with good intentions but clearly they did not have a plan on what to do once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown. Instead they hooked up Haliburton to the oil pipelines before restoring the water and sewage systems in Baghdad.

Bush's biggest crime has been Afghanistan. They had the moral and political support of the entire world when they went in. The Taleban was mistrusted or hated by most of it's neighbours and especially by it's people. Again no plan to deal with the aftermath. Whatever positive steps that were taken have been wiped out. Women and children are being enslaved again and the Taleban still carries on. In fact I would not be surprised if the Taleban eventually kicks us all out again, they managed to get the Russians out after all.

The main thing that 9/11 did for relations was to give Bush another term. Therefore allowing the hate to fester, not just in the Islamic world, through his governments blatant inefectivness and incompetency. Blame their government but please stop bashing the American people. Their sons and daughters are at the front line too and do not deserve the rough treatment being handed out by some individuals.

Answer 4

Yes and 9/11 has Completely Changed the Coarse of The World, all events orchestrated by The New World Order. who push toward Domination and Total Rule.. anyway. I Nominate C & L for Best Answer. well Researched, Constructed, and Presented..... CLplzEmMe

Answer 5

No, it just backfired on the Americans and alienated them more from the rest of the planet. A classic case of treading on your own dick. The best thing is that the level of mistrust about the USA just climbs from month to month.

Answer 6

Not really the same usual suspects still throw their international weight about!

Answer 7

nothing is ever 'forever'.
this is just one stage in history we are living through, that will see us to another stage in history that will look completely different to this one... and so it goes on. nothing stays the same, things will always change.

Answer 8

Sadly yes. America now knows Britain is its f ing poodle instead of merely suspecting it.

Answer 9

Yeah because now everyone really does hate Muslims as much as they hate us

Answer 10

Take a good look around you,,what do you think

Answer 11

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