Christine Angel
12 Sept. 2001
Terrorism
I am very angry about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Why
was it that these people were able to slip by and not be detected? It seems
obvious that the world knows that our security systems at airports have been
very poor. And that they were able to get "in" and use our very own technology
against us is uncomprehensible. I blame our government. We have no face for our
enemy. We have turned to computers and saltalites[satellites] to get our information we need. We have no sources/people on the
ground telling us who our enemy is. Its[It has] always been said by people in the government that we spend to much
money on the military. Now we need them. I don't think that government should
complain that there is too much money put into our armed forces, because it is
the sight of our forces that have always seemed to deter people from hurting us.
Things have now changed. No man will ever see our nation as secure. Our form of
government has been hurt so many people died. At first I thought the plane crash
in the first tower was an accident. By the time I came out of my 9:00 class and
heard that the towers had collapsed and the pentagon had been hit, my heart
sank. Many children went home from school yesterday to find that their parents
were dead. We need to find the people who planned this attack and the government
that housed them and pay them back for what they have done. Payback, I
understand, will involve a lot of innocent lives being lost. At this point, I
don't care. Maybe it is this very attitude that
is wrong with society today - but who knows? The only thing that I want the United States to make clear to other countries is that "this" is not okay. Thousands of lives had been lost. It was a terrible attack, and I still cannot believe it happened on American soil. Perhaps this is the event that will trigger World War III. The American government has, in effect, fallen asleep at the wheel. I hope to find that our current administration has the common sense and education that is needed in dealing with this.