What imapct have the terrorist atack on 9-11-01 had on security measures implemented in the world today?

Answer 1

Very little.

President Bush promised to go after nations that sponsor terrorism. He has failed to do that, so our security is no better but worse.

In the speech to the nation and to the joint session of Congress, Bush stated the folowing: "We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. (Applause.) From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. "

Re 1] "we will starve terrorists of funding", Bush sent MILLIONS to the terrorist nation of Iran following the Bam earthquake in 2003 and the second earthquake in 2005. Instead of "starving terrorists", Bush has sent them money. The bilions of $$$ doled out by the IMF and World Bank (USA funding) goes to terrorist nations--all unauditied and ends up in the hands of dictators and terrorists.

2] Bush also said, "And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism."

Instead of doing what he promised, Bush has caused the lost of 3000 lives chasing common thugs in the desert and house-to-house. Bush did not do what he promised by going after sponsor states of terrorism like Syria and Iran.

3] So what that Bush "regards these nations as a hostile regime". These nations laugh at the USA since these see cowards afraid to take serious action agains them.

If Bush had actually waged serious war and rained destruction on nations sposnsoring terrorism (or at least stop sending them $$$), then we would have been a safer nation since September 11.

The cowardly failure to take action against the nations that sponsor terrorism has resulted in a more dangerous world today than before September 11.

Both the Republicans and Democrats have failed to implement serious actions to quell the terrorism. The politicians of both parties spend more time in their power struggle pursuits than they do in taking action for the best interest of the USA and its security.

Answer 2

The impact has been minimal, because the effort has been staged so that - from all outward appearances - citizens believe the government hyperbole about how much safer the world is today.
The government has to keep up appearances, otherwise it's afraid there would be panic and chaos. So if the people demand to be more secure, the government provides an appropriate facade, knowing full well there is absolutely nothing it can do to protect its citizens.
If I were a terrorist, I'd know exactly where to strike next: probably the railroads or bus stations that are woefully underprotected. Maybe the west coast docks where thousands of cargo shipments can't possibly be checked or protected. Or, maybe I'd just attack a series of small towns where no one would ever suspect a terrorist to go (blowing up a hundred of those little communities at one time would make an impact). Of course, even our airports are dreadfully insecure (I've gone through "security" with false identification and certain kinds of things that our crack Homeland Security department considers "weapons"...and not once have I ever been detained, questioned, or suspected. I know smokers who have figured out how to conceal lighters and get through the metal detectors every time without Homeland Security ever knowing about it. It would be extremely easy to hand an airport baggage handler five hundred bucks and ensure that your 'bomb' would be loaded on an airplane. But the Department of Homeland Security wants all of us to believe that we're safe as long as we continue to fund that idiocy with millions of taxpayer dollars.
The threat at Heathrow Airport last year was staged for political purposes. Most "threats" aren't real....because if they were real, Homeland Security would never uncover them. It's by far the most incompetent, mismanaged wasteful bureaucracy in our federal government today. But the government (and other governments of the world need us to believe that we're "safe'). -RKO- 04/22/07