On September 11, 2001 terrorist hijackers crashed jetliners into both of the World's Trade Center towers in New York. These crashes caused the collapse of the two towers, while a third jetliner was crashed into the Pentagon located in Virginia. After this attack, about thousands had perished during the attacks as stated by U.S. President Bush. These attacks caused the sadness in those who lost their loved ones in the 9/11 attacks and anger in those who witnessed the attacks. Many believed that the U.S. government in retaliation for the attacks needed a response. They believed that the terrorists should be brought to justice no matter what. In response to the 9/11 attacks, the government of the U.S. started to destroy terrorist camps and signed the Patriot Act. In document three it stated, "clear and specific demands: Close terrorist camps. Hand over the leaders of the al-Qaeda network, and return all foreign nationals, including American citizens unjustly detained in our country." The Taliban did not give in to the demands, so in response the U.S. started striking military targets like training camps …show more content…
was waging war against terrorism, many criticized the government's actions like Cindy Sheehan who believes that the war wasn't helping but instead it's harming everybody. Also newspapers criticized Bush's war on terror saying it's ruining America's reputation and has damaged the power of Western values. Cindy Sheehan lost her son while he was fighting in the war against terror. Since then, she believed the war wasn't helping anybody, but instead it was killing a bunch of innocent civilians in the Middle East. Cindy claimed that the real reason that the terrorists attacked us was that they hated our Middle-Eastern foreign policy and not that they hated our freedoms and democracy. Newspapers criticized the war on terror claiming it has ruined America's reputation. Newspapers have also claimed that we are damaging Western values with the war on