10 Years Since 9/11

Today marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Much has happened since then: we’ve invaded two countries with no happy-ending in sight, the economy entered a recession and has yet to truly emerge, and the Patriot Act was passed allowing the government to keep tabs on Americans without oversight from the Judiciary branch (goodbye forever, civil liberties). The terrorists may have failed to completely destroy government, but they succeeded in making the U.S appear imperialist by invading two Middle Eastern countries, and managed to persuade us to give up civil liberties we’ve cherished for centuries (and we look a lot China and the countries the Arab Spring has touched). Yet Al-Qaeda is considered to be on the run, yet the damage persists (we’re still in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Patriot Act doesn’t appear to be leaving anytime soon). So as we remember those who perished, we must not lose sight of the future and the structure which our nation is based on.

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