9/11 and a week after
Soudabeh Sabour

Prof. Brown

7/8/2013

-Why American leaders tried to show everything is ok?

-Do you think President Bush is the cause of war and consequently guilty for 9/11 tragedy?

-Do you think it is right for America to bomb the innocent people in Iraq, and no one ever made heart- rending TV shows about them?

I do not like policy and I think it is the worst thing in the whole world. I don’t want to say that United State is guilty to bring this horror to its people, because I believe what public will not know the reality behind political decisions made by governors. I agree with Susan Sontag that it is barbarian not to sympathy with those we lost in 9/11, but why we never saw any TV show of the people who were killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in other places where we can trace US army. Media tried to show the event as “cowardly attack to civilization and humanity”, and Susan Sontag believes it is “an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower”.

But I want to look at it in this way. Why should anyone or any country try to be the most powerful at any cost? For sure all countries cannot be the same economically and politically. But why should the most powerful country use its power to start war instead of peace?  I believe the reason of any war is to gain power by getting money, oil and natural resources. Countries start wars so they can sell their weapons for oil and other sources and make those countries involved in war weak and dependent. That is one of the ways power grows. Who cares for those uncivilized third world people whose lives does not count. It is sad but true.