9/11 Summary
“At 8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States became a nation transformed” (“The 9/11 Commission Report Executive Summary” 6). This day will forever be a part of the American way of live from here on out. It was a day of tragedy and surprise, but was it something we could have avoided? “The 9/11 Commission Report” talks about the events leading up to this tragic event, how the government could of avoided such devastation, who was the man behind it all, the events on the 9/11, and the general problems within the United States government. While there is more to the story then most of “us” (United States citizens) will ever know, this book is probably the closest most of the “us” will ever get to actually understanding 9/11,
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government from 1998 to 2001 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al Qaeda plot. Across the government, there were failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management” (“The 9/11 Commission Report Executive Review” 14). In understanding this quote we have to take what they said about the three failures into dept, looking first at the failure of imagination, which the book calls the most important failure of the United States government. This failure being defined by how the leaders did not understand the magnitude of threat al Qaeda and Bin Laden himself was to the United States. Osama Bin Laden, being the genius he was, formulated his al Qaeda group into a power that the United States government just could not take on. This power posed challenges to the United States government though our top officials reported that they understood the dangers al Qaeda influenced. The book goes on to say that they believed it was unclear to these officials just how strong and dangerous al Qaeda was, and blew if off as an ordinary terrorist threat towards the United States. Even after 9/11 the White House staffer responsible for counterterrorism broadcasted that they were still unsure is al Qaeda was a “big deal.” What? Big deal? Are you kidding me? This one group of terrorist, the al Qaeda, just tore apart our family! They killed thousands, and left many more in fear for their own lives. The problem once again our government not thinking that flying two plans into the World Trade Center’s was big enough to consider them a threat to our nation. After reading this, I can now understand how this was the most important failure our government produced. Now that I got my rage out on that failure, I will move on to policy. Though there was not much mentioned in terms of policy, it was still in fact a way we made ourselves vulnerable to these horrid attacks. The books talks about how
government from 1998 to 2001 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al Qaeda plot. Across the government, there were failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management” (“The 9/11 Commission Report Executive Review” 14). In understanding this quote we have to take what they said about the three failures into dept, looking first at the failure of imagination, which the book calls the most important failure of the United States government. This failure being defined by how the leaders did not understand the magnitude of threat al Qaeda and Bin Laden himself was to the United States. Osama Bin Laden, being the genius he was, formulated his al Qaeda group into a power that the United States government just could not take on. This power posed challenges to the United States government though our top officials reported that they understood the dangers al Qaeda influenced. The book goes on to say that they believed it was unclear to these officials just how strong and dangerous al Qaeda was, and blew if off as an ordinary terrorist threat towards the United States. Even after 9/11 the White House staffer responsible for counterterrorism broadcasted that they were still unsure is al Qaeda was a “big deal.” What? Big deal? Are you kidding me? This one group of terrorist, the al Qaeda, just tore apart our family! They killed thousands, and left many more in fear for their own lives. The problem once again our government not thinking that flying two plans into the World Trade Center’s was big enough to consider them a threat to our nation. After reading this, I can now understand how this was the most important failure our government produced. Now that I got my rage out on that failure, I will move on to policy. Though there was not much mentioned in terms of policy, it was still in fact a way we made ourselves vulnerable to these horrid attacks. The books talks about how