I don't believe Wiltz was right in discounting the dramatic pronouncements of pundits immediately following the event. The main point I don't agree with is Wiltz's thesis, it read "Even a national tragedy of cataclysmic proportions can alter our cultural DNA by only so much". I am of the viewpoint that daily American life will be forever altered in a fundamental way. Think about it, what does the average American think when they see a suspicious looking individual at the airport? Why have the average airports' pre-flight check times tripled since 2001? The every day lives of Americans have become much more censored since the attacks of 9/11.
The images and sounds featured in "On Native Soil" have definitely changed my idea of the attacks. Before viewing "On Native Soil" I had thought the attacks were completely uncontrollable. I am not saying that America could have prevented the attacks, but there were many more mistakes made than I had known about in the past. For example the lack of communication between FAA officials, the fact that the FBI had looked into a "planes as weapons" investigation but decided not to pursue it and that workers in tower 2 were told to stay in place because the were safe.
I do agree with you in the way that our lives have been changed forever and we can't just let this pass by us. I see how we could of looked into this more but once the planes were in the air we really could not of done anything to stop them unlesss we shot them down which we did not have time to do. There were mistakes in many ways on this day and this will be a momement that will make us view Middle Eastern people as threats to us and has changed many things in the world today.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you. But what I don't understand is that if the FBI new about using planes as weapons then why didn't they try to do something about. Why just let it go and not try to save thousands of people, yet he let it go and when it did happen we didn't know what to do. Probably the biggest concern is how "Dumb" the US is for not trying to stop these attacks and for attacking another dountry that had nothing to do with us. They had no threat to us at all. Maybe the Iraqi president made fun of Bush. If so then still that wouldn't any reason. In a result for bombing a country that had nothing to do with us we were hated for.
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