The Day The Earth Stood Still!!

In class we saw a film called 9/11, that as you may understand is about the terrible day two plains crashed into the twin towers in New York. The movie was meant for making a documentary about the firemen at a fire station near the twin towers, and the brothers that made it began filming a long time before the terrible incident. The film particularly circles around one man who is new at the station, and have to go through many tests to learn how he should work as a fireman. In the beginning he complains that he never gets to experience a fire.
Almost 30 minutes into the documentary we reach the morning of September 11th. Some of the firemen go out to check a leaky gas main. One of the guys are filming the work when the first plain crashes into one of the twin towers. Further on the movie shows almost everything that happens from the second the men are driving to the towers to check on what happened. One of the men who was inside the building films everything, and his way we get to see how the firemen react on everything that happens, and what they do to help the people inside the building. You can hear people hitting the roof when they through themselves out of the building to take their own lives instead of dying inside the towers. We get to see how the firemen escape the building when it collapse, and how it all looked afterwards. It is a touching movie, because you get to see how all these innocent people loose their family and friends inside and outside the towers. You can see the fear in their eyes, and how they desperately tries to find their beloved once in the chaos.

The US is the most powerful country in the world, and to me it seems like they want the rest of the world to have the impression that they are impossible to destroy. Therefore I believe they have a lot of pride and dignity. When the attack on the twin towers happened on September 11th, 2001, the citizens in the United States felt vulnerable, maybe for the first time. Most Americans looked at this terror attack as an attack that was meant for the whole American nation, and that the thought behind it was to make fear among the people, and to hurt as many as possible. The group that stood behind the attack was the terrorist group Al Qaida. The attack led to what we call the war on terror, led by George W. Bush, that was the president of the US at the time it happened. He decided to go to war against Afghanistan, where Al Qaida had it’s head quarter. Later he, with most Americans behind him, decided to attack Iraq. The reason he did these things was because he wanned to get one step closer to fight against terror. Many people also think that many Americans supported his choice to go to war because of the thirst for revenge after 9/11.

Maybe this terror attack on the US was meant to make a mark in the “perfect” history of America, or maybe Al Qaida wanned America to loose some of their power in the world. Either way most people in the world agree that this was an extreme way of showing what they where capable of. The whole world froze for some minuets, maybe even hours, when they saw what had happened in New York that day. Somehow it affected almost every country in the world, and Al Qaida got what I think they was looking for, attention and a frightened world. It is the most comprehensive terror attack in the US history, both in material damages as much as the loose of innocent lives.

Many people all over the world also reacted on how Bush handled the situation after the attack. He managed to take the lives of more civilian people in the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. Many people in Europe therefore ask themselves how much better Bush and his supporters was than Al Qaida. Countries all over Europe took distance from George bush and his decisions and reactions after the terrible incident in New Yourk September 11th.