9/11 changed a lot in our world today. So much resulted from it that we, America, even went to war. However, there are many questions about the war. Was it necessary and how did it gain support. Who bought the war? I theorize that we all bought it. The government was ready to go to war after the attacks and they needed to sell it. Everyone from government officials, civilian, and the media had to buy into it.
Media cover leading up to and during the war was very strange. It was handle, very much in the same way as the war was sold. If you for the war you were for America. If you were against the war you are now one of them. One of the people wanting America to fall. This made coverage of the 9/11 and the war very complicated. Criticizing the events was viewed as anti-American. There was immense pressure in dealing with the politics of it all. Even making it difficult to publicise that would undermine the events.
For the most part, the left and the right wings of politics are on completely different sides. That changes shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The only side anyone could be on was America's side. So eventually there would be nothing more to argue about. With the fear of being attacked by criticizing any of the events both sides soon formed very similar options.
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