9/11 and A Few Weeks Later by Susan Sontag

Part 1:
1. Was the U.S. attacked because of their modern life stye or was it other reasons?
2. Why did the U.S. have 9/11 coming?
3. Why did the government try to convince America that everything was alright?
Part 2:
3. Why did the government try to convince America that everything was alright?

In Susan Sontag’s piece called “9/11” she states that “Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K” but she feels that everything was not O.K. because America had then declared they were at war. It seems that she was not agreeing with the war and that government wasn’t doing a great job telling the nation the truth behind the attacks. It seems that Sontag wanted the government to give people a chance to understand what had happened on that day and what was to follow, rather than just declaring war right away. I was nine years old when the twin towers were hit, I remember going to school and we watched the news broadcasting the events that were happening that day. Even when I got home my family was watching the news, I remember watching the towers fall and watching the people’s personal videos that they shot from ground zero on the television and I remember hearing people screaming and crying. I remember the news broadcasting the final calls that people made from the twin towers and the high jacked airplanes to their loved ones. As well as the pilots calling their dispatchers saying that their being high jacked. This was heartbreaking too watch, even to this day when they show programs explaining why 9/11 happened and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, it is sad to see the videos and hear the phone calls. When U.S. declared war, they announced that it was because they thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but a people thought that the U.S. had hidden agendas like they declared war because they wanted their oil. In the article “A Few Weeks Later” Sontag expresses that the attack was “an attack on modernity”, whatever the reason maybe, I feel that the government wanted to convince America that everything was going to be alright, so that the country could feel safe again and not to stir up panic and fear.