Despite 9/11 Tragedy Americans Now View Terrorism Differently Recent Reporting Shows
September 11, 2001 occurred 23 years ago when the world was reminded that radical Islamic terrorism posed a serious consequence. Afterward, the US vowed to keep American civilians safe from such threats. Eliminating Osama Bin Laden and other top terrorist leaders, weakening Al Qaeda and waging two Middle Eastern wars to dismantle terror networks.
Americans knew they would live with terrorism after 9/11, but 23 years later it’s on the rebound.
Joshua Eaton reported in September that the Taliban took over again within weeks of President Joe Biden pulling out all U.S. troops, costing American taxpayers an additional $7 billion worth of destroyed equipment just to leave Afghanistan.
At the same time, some Americans are beginning to change their opinions about terrorism. In various protests, old rallying cries for American unity like “United We Stand” were almost literally traded in favor of anti-American ones.
The promise to “Never Forget” is fading, even 9/11 becoming a meme for some millennials. I mean, a 21-year-old college kid tweeted that she “actually forgot not everyone thinks it’s funny now,” and got more than ten thousand likes.
Almost a third of the Gen Z respondents said that Bin Laden’s ideas are “beneficial,” according to a recent poll commissioned by The Jerusalem Post.
That same reorientation of sympathies can be seen in support for Hamas, whose members – ranging from fighters to affiliate political and cultural figures – committed the most heinous slaughter since October 7th, 2023 on July 17th with more than a thousand Israeli victims among hundreds blown apart or decapitated while still alive including mutilations; also several dozen rapes as well as entire families kidnapped.walk-away-avatars » Blog Archive ». In cases where illegal tent encampments have sprouted on various campuses, Jewish students are being harassed and some protesters wear Hamas headbands or wave flags linked to terrorism.
Of 51 Americans killed in Gaza since September, all but three died as a result of Hamas attacks, and among those are currently being held seven prisoners. A group of Palestinians initially took eight Americans prisoner and last month they executed one of them, Hersh Goldberg Polin, by shooting him at point blank range.
There are many explanations about why support for terrorism has increased, but some say this could also be political. One factor is that President Joe Biden has put a stop to former President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran, which was intended to reduce its capacity to sponsor terrorism. Instead, the Obama administration permitted Tehran to access $6 billion in a prisoner swap deal.
Meanwhile, a congressional report revealed that the Biden-Harris administration border policies had admitted 250 terrorists into the U.S.: “we aren’t talking about Yemen or Saudi Arabia where we know terrorism is rampant — these people have come from Egypt, Iran & Afghanistan,” and of those cases “99 were out loose in this country.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who was said to be the “last person in the room” as Biden made his decision on pulling out of Afghanistan ,has received criticism for not attending a ceremony at which 13 troops were killed during that withdrawal and then invoking former President Trump’s presence there.
Further, during a recent debate when asked about supporting the decision of withdrawal by Biden; however she could not give a proper response.
Now, under the Biden-Harris administration, the Taliban has been spawned again and is more powerful than most could have imagined only allowing women to speak or show their faces in public.
President Biden, Vice President Harris, former President Trump, and his running mate Ohio Senator J.D. Vance all stood together at the 9/11 memorial today in a show of unity.
