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11. September: “the expulsion from Disneyland”
The terrorist attacks of September 11. September 2001 have changed the United States. The feeling of Superiority, the fear left. Islamophobia has become socially acceptable. Miodrag Soric is reported via New York.
The grave of James McNaughton, like in 2005 in the Iraq war
William and Michelle McNaughton leaves in old photo albums. Many of the images come from the time when her son James that you lovingly call “Jimmy”, was living with them when he was still alive. At one end of his former child’s room in the basement in a glass case with countless medals and awards. “This is the most valuable,” explains William: Purple Heart. You will only be awarded to soldiers who were injured in battle severely, or killed. His son Jimmy has been shot and killed in 2005 by a sniper in Iraq. Father and mother came across this loss never. They regularly visit his grave in the military cemetery Calverton National Cemetery in Riverhead, about two hours by car from New York City. “If I have a bad day, I come in the middle of the night here,” says Michelle.
William and Michelle are retired police officers from New York. You had service on the 11. September 2001, saw on that fateful day in America, the Grey, the victim, later, the clean-up work. You are American patriots, conservative, hospitable, helpful. You are proud that your son is a street in the neighborhood and a building in the prison camp in Guantanamo have been designated. For you – but for most Americans – is Jimmy a Hero.
William and Michelle McNaughton: “died, Why our son?”
“The people in Iraq are worse off than before”
Leafing through the photo albums, it breaks out of the father: “for What our son died,” he asks? However, he does not question the war in Iraq. His son was a soldier. Soldiers do what the generals commands. What annoys him, Yes, angry is the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. “The people in Iraq is now worse than before,” says William. In Iraq, many Americans have lost their lives. The United States would leave the deduction of military equipment, which was worth millions. “For what?”, he asks again.
Actually, he should be able to answer this question: David Petraeus, former CIA Director and commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. The American media praise him as one of the most gifted military leaders of the last decades, test. In the meantime, he works at the New York investment company KKR (Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts). It is, among other things, with debt securities issued by States, moved billion.
Ex-General David Petraeus: The war against Terror will take a long time
General Petraeus enters in a dark blue suit, shiny black shoes, and a cardboard Cup full of coffee in the Hand the room. He speaks articulately, smiling in a friendly way. Nothing seems to be able to this man’s surprise. The war against international terrorism will last for generations, he explains. In his box of records on the war, he used the word “sustainable”. Want to say: wars are expensive, time-consuming, they cost the Americans. If the USA do you want to run long, you need to be affordable.
The goal of Bin Laden: The United States force the financially in the knee to
General Petraeus knows better than others that it is forcing the mastermind of 9/11, Bin Laden, among other things, that’s why the United States went financially in the knee. To embroil the country in as many wars, Washington did not ultimately win. He is confident that the Islamic state will be defeated in the foreseeable future. Pessimistic as a result of the political future of Iraq. “Because it’s brutal. Welcome to the top sports League,” says Petraeus. In the end, he has no direct answer to the question of the family of McNaughton, for which her son died in Iraq.
This is also true for the psychologist Scott Morgan, Drew University, Madison. For years, he conducts research on “political psychology” of the Americans. The terrorist attacks of September 11. September 2001 had triggered the Americans a Trauma. His people lived in the fear that it could repeat such an attack. Scott Morgan describes the time between the fall of the Berlin wall and the 11. September 2001 as a happy time: The USA was the undisputed world power, have been no 1. The Americans believed at the time to be “untouchable”. With the terrorist attacks have changed everything. “After 9/11 we were out of Disneyland expelled from the land of fairy tales, we believed that we can attack no-one. The terrifying world of the dangers – you have reached us.”
Islamophobic failures belong to Trumps standard program
Scott Morgan: “After 9/11 we were out of Disneyland sold”
Studies prove that The terrorist attacks had strengthened the distrust of the Americans against Muslims, so Scott Morgan. Of every three Americans believe that Islam encourages significantly more to violence than other religions. Every second does not mean that Muslims attack clearly enough to distance of a potential terrorist. Xenophobic, Islamophobic failures also include the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the standard program in case of his election campaign appearances.
One that suffers under the constant hostility, But Kavas from Brooklyn. The 24-Year-old wearing a headscarf, but to prefer bright and cheerful colors, especially if you go to the airport: you don’t want to be police officers, detained or other pass Fears to act awaken. At the same time she has sick and tired of your Muslim Faith to have to constantly apologize. For almost two years she works at the Arab-American Association, and holds in schools or churches courses on Islamophobia.
An amendment to the US immigration policy led to family separations
11. September has her life turned upside down. So her father, who was staying without valid documents in the United States had to leave the country. “About four years after 9/11, the American immigration policy changed. My father was imprisoned for three and a half years. My family has sued to have him released. Then he was sent to Jordan. He may not be back in the United States.” Since then, she lives with her sisters and her mother alone in New York. You can visit the father once in a year. The year you stay with Skype and phone contact.
However, to keep by the phone a relationship is difficult. Today is the 30. Wedding anniversary of their parents: The only thing that could do her father, was to call his wife, she says. That’ll make you sad. “It’s all because of 9/11,” she says. And the tears from their eyes wipes.