Eleven Years have passed since the September Eleven Attacks on the U.S by the Al-Qaeda terror group.
The years passed have brought some significant successes in the United States pursuit of this group, with the most prominent member of the organization - Osama Bin Laden - being killed by U.S troops last year.
But these years also brought some problematic perceptions and changes in the U.S political culture.
- In the name of Homeland Security, human rights are too frequently being ignored or brutally denied by the exectuive branch. That same branch spends tons of public money which on many occasions goes into security related issues unchecked and this takes place even in the current times of extreme budgetary difficulties. Worse still, and the executive no longer enables the legislative branch to effectively supervise many of its actions as this example comes to show.
- Too much attention is given to Jihadist-related terror, while other forms of terror, which were very dangerous in the last eleven years, do not get enough government and public attention.
(image of New York City on September 11, 2001quoted from NASA.gov)
The combination of these two factors can be extremely dangerous. Might it actually be that long after that strike by Al-Qaeda, the self-immune-like reactions of the United States of America are actually killing its own democracy ?
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