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On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City (9/11 Attack, 2010). This attack later deemed as a terrorist interaction with the United States was said to be the malicious works of the Al-Qaeda (a Muslim based terrorist organization). Within hours of the attack, some 3,000 people were confirmed to be dead and word had gotten around the globe that the Trade Center had collapsed by forceful means. This was the ignition to why Canada had to fight alongside the United States of America under NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and other countries in the otherwise “pointless” war known as the Afghanistan war. In other words, the involvement …show more content…
When Al-Qaeda crashed several Boeing 767’s into the World Trade Center on 2001, they should have knew that they would cause an international war. Terrorism can never be justified and neither can the deaths of many people caused by a few people’s greedy and selfish thoughts. Anything that can be prevented for the better cause, could and should, be prevented from the first place. If this could have been prevented then maybe the debt of society’s money spent on the war, a number of casualties Canadian soldiers had to face and the overall negative lasting effects of the Afghanistan war could have been avoided. Overall, by looking at the negative atrocities caused by the selfish thoughts of a terrorist organization, one can see that blood will have blood and an eye for an eye, will just make the whole world

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