The attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001, on the United States of America, is one event that has had a wide and long lasting impact on the entire world, form the time it took place, till today, and it will continue to have its impact in the future as well. What happened was this: about nineteen men of the terrorist Al-Qaeda group, hijacked four commercial aircraft, and subsequently, crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City, and one into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and the fourth one, which the heroic passengers attempted to rescue from the hijackers, crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people died from the terrorist attacks, and the 110 floors of the Twin World Trade Centers, five other buildings located in the same area, and four subway stations were completely destroyed. (September 11, 2001 Attacks)
             The issue here is did this single event in history manage to cast its influence on other events that took place in the United States at a later date, including areas like politics, religion, culture, and so on? Why, for example, did the USA suddenly decide to launch a war against Iraq? Furthermore, the fact that the USA decided to launch a war against Iraq made a deep impact on Britain as well; Britain went to war against Iraq the same as the United States did. Although Britain is able to offer numerous explanations as to why she decided to wage war against Iraq, the USA's reasons are not so clear-cut. The conventional explanation usually offered is that after the Twin Towers were hit by the terrorists, it was but natural that the government of the United States would want to retaliate against the Afghanistan terrorists, and because it was discovered at the same time that Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction in his armoire, the United States decided to extend the war against terrorism against Iraq as well. However, it must be r...