As 9/11 changed the focus of the United States forever, it was clearly evident that the facts and fictions of that tragic day had to be understood; therefore, the 9/11 Commission report was created. Though the years have since passed, the outcries of victims from that September day haunt even the quietest corners of the globe. Our Government began their investigation on how such a tragedy such as this could happen on our own soil without even a second thought of concern from our own government. Even with the evidence there, the sense of false security followed by the lack of understanding the information, or cooperation, within the Government sector itself, proved to be fatal flaws as 9/11 was carried out effortlessly with no interruptions or concerns from us as a whole.
This begins with the imaginative side of the facts as 9/11 appeared to the United States as a mere rumor, little did we understand how real that day would become in its future time. Thus we begin with the threats in the early nineties as Al Qaeda began to slowly emerge, many starts of terrorism were already beginning to rise. Whether it was the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center to the untimely murders of two C.I.A. members stemming from two known terrorists Ramzi Yousef and Mir Amal Kansi, the threats were truly evident for us to all see and pay attention to. However, these incidents were only seen as mere coincidence as these men tried to hold the U.S. to blame for their own countries problems. Instead, we chose to turn the other cheek seeing that Al Qaeda had only killed 50 Americans. This allowed us to see the severity of the threat but not enough to bolster an arsenal to fight it; therefore, the plot continued. Although other incidents had occurred, such as the U.S.S. Cole attack, the United States Government did not want to speculate nor call attention to terrorism in the views of a National Debate, once again failing to bring any alarm to our society whatsoever. As the years...