Inhumane Anthropology
The United States of America has a priority on assuring its citizens have ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as proposed by its founding fathers. However, on September 11th, 2001, this idea was challenged by a paramilitary organization, Al-Qaeda who was based in Afghanistan. This group had nineteen of its members hijack four of American airplanes. Two planes hit the twin towers of the New York City World Trade Center. Another plane crashed into the Pentagon building in Virginia. The last plane flew into a Pennsylvania field. This tragedy cost thousand of innocent lives. America reacted by invading Afghanistan and Iraq as well as declaring a war on both nations. Nevertheless, these actions taken by the United States after the 9/11
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They invaded the country and destroyed their camps. They also disrupted communications between Afghanistan and their allies in order to raise the level of difficulty to “train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans”(President Bush’s Afghanistan Speech). However this was an act of violence, and this was not accepted by families who had a lost family member. One parent opinionated that although their son “.. died a victim of an inhumane ideology. Our [The United States] actions should not serve the same purpose… Let us[ America] not as a nation add to the inhumanity of our times’(Zinn & Arnove, eds. (2009). Voices of a People’s History, 2nd edition (NY: Seven Stories Press), p. 603.). In other terms, America was viewed just like Al-Qaeda was, a cruel and sadistic …show more content…
The Bush administration had sent US troops to Iraq because there was a belief that the country had been developing weapons of mass destruction and were an aid to Al-Qaeda. Furthermore, a portion of America had supported this possible war as “44 percent of Americans reported [in a poll] that either ‘most or ‘some of the Sept.11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. The answer is zero”( The Christian Science Monitor, March 14,2003). Moreover, America wanting to hurt Iraq was seen as a victim mentality act by others. On claimed that “We [Americans] do those who lost their lives no service at all by adopting a victim mentality”(An attack on Us All: NATO’s Response to Terrorism). This indicates that America had dwelled so much in this tragedy that their grievance became anger and that led into violence. Instead America should not thier anger interfere but rather “think about a rational response that brings real peace and justice to [the] world” (Zinn & Arnove, eds. (2009). Voices of a People’s History, 2nd edition (NY: Seven Stories Press), p. 603.). America invading Iraq was seen injustice since their involvement in the 9/11 attack was more of an assumption then factual
They invaded the country and destroyed their camps. They also disrupted communications between Afghanistan and their allies in order to raise the level of difficulty to “train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans”(President Bush’s Afghanistan Speech). However this was an act of violence, and this was not accepted by families who had a lost family member. One parent opinionated that although their son “.. died a victim of an inhumane ideology. Our [The United States] actions should not serve the same purpose… Let us[ America] not as a nation add to the inhumanity of our times’(Zinn & Arnove, eds. (2009). Voices of a People’s History, 2nd edition (NY: Seven Stories Press), p. 603.). In other terms, America was viewed just like Al-Qaeda was, a cruel and sadistic …show more content…
The Bush administration had sent US troops to Iraq because there was a belief that the country had been developing weapons of mass destruction and were an aid to Al-Qaeda. Furthermore, a portion of America had supported this possible war as “44 percent of Americans reported [in a poll] that either ‘most or ‘some of the Sept.11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. The answer is zero”( The Christian Science Monitor, March 14,2003). Moreover, America wanting to hurt Iraq was seen as a victim mentality act by others. On claimed that “We [Americans] do those who lost their lives no service at all by adopting a victim mentality”(An attack on Us All: NATO’s Response to Terrorism). This indicates that America had dwelled so much in this tragedy that their grievance became anger and that led into violence. Instead America should not thier anger interfere but rather “think about a rational response that brings real peace and justice to [the] world” (Zinn & Arnove, eds. (2009). Voices of a People’s History, 2nd edition (NY: Seven Stories Press), p. 603.). America invading Iraq was seen injustice since their involvement in the 9/11 attack was more of an assumption then factual