Terrorism

Comment: turning point in the history of the world

The attacks of September 11. September 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon with hijacked passenger planes were historically unprecedented. And, until today, says Miodrag Soric.

After the fall of the Berlin wall the West has put something of a break. The renowned political scientist Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the “end of history” and politicians fabulierten of the “peace dividend”. America pinned the medal “Hyper power” of the chest. Former enemies were in the Western Clubs if they kept the rules of the game; or they have been pushed back, not ignored, if they did it.

However, after the end of the Cold war, the desire to design that you had after the Second world war shown was missing in the United States. At the time, America created NATO, the UN, the world Bank or the IMF structures of a new world order. Nothing about it in the 90s. Bill Clinton remained a province of politicians – even after his relocation from Arkansas to the White house: no new security structure in the Northern hemisphere, no efficient fight against poverty in the South, hardly climate protection, not a permanent peace in the Middle East.

The attack out of the blue

Then with 9/11, the first attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor: out of the blue – literally and figuratively. The Americans of the fate met unprepared, unsettled many – until today. A day that lingers in the newly begun century. Or as former CIA Director and General David Petraeus formulated to the DW sober: “The fight against Terror will last for generations.”

Miodrag Soric is head of the DW Studio in Washington

In the days after the 11. September 2001 was able to have this insight. At the time, it was to prevent, first, that the world is sinking into recession, The Central banks opened the money floodgates. First, they had success, because of the slump on the stock exchanges of love largely. However, after a few years, neither banks nor customers knew what to do with the cheap money? Everyone in the USA who could spell his name half right, got a credit. A property bought in Florida or anywhere else. Often, he could not actually afford.

In 2008, the bubble burst. Washington was forced to print even more money. The US is indebted. Europeans, Japanese and others did it to you. The Olympics of the money printing continues to this day. Politicians push so the solution of structural problems on the long Bank. At the same time, the middle class is shrinking in the USA, your standard of living drops. Osama bin Laden’s Plan seems to be working: The ore-Terrorist wanted by the United States financially in Ruin to drive, not military defeat.

President Obama has learned from the mistakes of his predecessor: He has withdrawn the troops from Overseas either entirely or greatly reduced. Why should America invest in wars it can’t win? However, even after the Iraq withdrawal this adventure alone costs the American taxpayers hundreds of billions. Because every expansion of the security apparatus, the social costs of health insurance or pension for the previous military – in the height of screws. The US will drag around this financial millstone for decades.

The infrastructure suffers

While the alleged security of thousands of kilometers away trillions to be wasted missing it at all, to modernise the infrastructure of the United States, or to make education affordable. The official unemployment rate of just five percent, veiled have given up, how many of them there for a long time, to seek a Job. Political pied Piper to offer in the presidential campaign, the supposed solutions. Washington’s political class compromise is unable and unwilling to pay. In the book shops books sell like hot cakes, America’s decline to prophesy. The Tenor: America, a world power that has taken over.

It is very respectable to want to predict the future. Only one thing is clear: What is a incision of the 11. September 2001. For all of our safety. For the restriction of privacy. For the concessions to the issue of human rights or international law by the United States.

Nine-Eleven was more than just a historical touch of a Finger. Rather, it was the day of the set with the fight against terrorism the basic motif for the dawning century.

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