How is 911 and pearl harbor similar

A photograph of rescue workers gathered in a debris pile at the World Trade Center after the September 11, attacks. A photograph from December 7, of warships damaged at Pearl Harbor. Bush surveying the damage to the Pentagon from Marine One on September 14, Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War.

Victorian Era. Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act, Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust. The Columbian Exchange. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Institutional Login. LOG IN. It's here and I don't see it ending in my lifetime or in the lifetimes of my stepson and my nieces and nephews.

My real fear is that the extremists will get some type of weapon of mass destruction. All these years later, Taft remembers what his wife, Hope, did a day after the attacks. She was always afraid of getting shots and avoided them whenever she could. And it may lead to a letting down of our guard or a sense of relaxation to the threat.

Certainly, the threats are still out there. The country, they agree, is more security-minded, more patriotic and nationalistic, more wary of immigrants, especially from the Middle East. Americans have consented to spending untold billions to build up the military, we are more concerned about our veterans, and we have subjugated more of our privacy to government surveillance to prevent terrorism.

A fear of more attacks has caused some Americans to be suspicious of Muslims and to withdraw to safe havens of same-thinking countrymen, to be less tolerant of our political differences and, hence, angrier, as evident by congressional gridlock and the current presidential race. We killed Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaida, 10 years after he masterminded the attacks.

And after all of that, we remain vulnerable to terrorists, who continually invent new ways to menace the world, including through cyberspace or the brainwashing of malleable lone-wolf attackers. Individuals have the power to wreak more havoc than any have in the past. Stebenne, professor of history and law at Ohio State University, worries that 15 years after the attacks, with no similar catastrophic events since, Americans have grown weary of war and the loss of freedoms, gradually lulled into complacency.

It seems intractable; it doesn't get any better. It is of now-retired Dispatch photographer Neal C. Lauron, son of a Filipino immigrant and my companion on four of the assignments. No doubt the two events will forever remain etched in the US collective memory. This different outcome is mostly the making of US political elites. In the s and early s, President Roosevelt and his successor Harry S. Truman committed the United States first to total war against the fascist dictatorships and then to systemic confrontation with the Soviet bloc on a strategic rationale the public could not just understand but also share — at least to a large extent.

By contrast, the Bush Administration put forward ever-changing objectives.