Cynthia Munoz
Sep 11 2006 12:00AM
Since 9/11, America has developed some dramatic changes. One of them is our attitude or our point of view on the subject. We constantly dump on our President, we singled out Middle Easterners, and suddenly we think we’re experts about the war.
If you ever paid the slightest attention to the news, you might have noticed the ongoing bashing of our President. Before he declared war, we called him an idiot for not doing so, but after he declared it, he was labeled as a “chauvinist pig” for doing so. Would we still be calling him names if the attacks had never happened?
Right after the attacks, we went into a sort of post World War II phase, but this time we singled out our Middle Eastern neighbors. They were stereotyped, criticized, and used as comic relief on most of our TV shows.
And I can’t honestly speak for everyone because I was just starting high school at the time, but I can still bet that a lot of us didn’t know the definitions of the terms Taliban, NATO, or Peace for that matter. It’s sad to think that it takes a complete tragedy for some of us to suddenly start watching the news and paying attention to what’s going on in the world around us. It’s as if the news got popular and being intuitive was the new pink.
But you know what; the nation didn’t really make a turn for the worst. If you think about it, America has always used their President for criticizing and as a pun for comedy. We have given him a lot of authority and so much of our money that it is our given right as Americans to say how we feel about the government at the time.
As for as the measures of our security, maybe it’s a great thing that we can be a little more secure about our lives and our loved ones, and it’s worth having to fork over our water or hand sanitizer before we can even get on a plane.
And maybe it’s about time we started paying attention to what is going on around us. Maybe if we would pay a little more attention, we could help prevent some of the events that have catered to our downfall, or maybe we could even help to assist one of the greatest and chiefly ordeals in our lifetime.
If we can say anything about all that has occurred since Sept. 11, it is that America has suffered a severe economic wash-out due to gas and gas prices have gone down right now, so get it before it goes back up to $3!