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Question 1: How was your topic affected by 9/11? Click edit, post the power paragraph for question 1.

How do we know when the war on terrorism is over? This war isn’t just in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s a global war that the United States of America is currently fighting and tracking about 50 terrorist organizations. The United States got more involved with this fight after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and George W. Bush said “Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda but it does not end there, it will not end till every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.” This global war has been going on for almost 10 years, when will it end? It might not ever end because the terrorist groups are all around the world and go into hiding. It took us 10 years to catch Osama Bin Laden and he was just one terrorist, who knows how long the war will go on 10 more years? 20? 30? 100?

//www.youtube.com//. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. || Question 2: Explain the scope (extent), intensity (depth), and nature of the affect of 9/11 on you topic. Click edit, post the power paragraph for question 2.
 * < Bush, George W. "Post 9/11 speech." US senate. 20 Sept. 2001.

Ever since the attacks of 9/11 the United States has escalated our war on terror, especially in the Middle East. When the attacks happened George W. Bush made a statement that the United States wouldn’t stop fighting until the globe is rid of all terrorist groups, in the Middle East there have been surges of troops to help fight the war on terror. In 2001 there were almost 0 troops in the middle east, then in 2007 the troop number was at 150,000, this many troops were pushed in because the United States was trying to scare the terrorist into leaving (which didn’t work), and now in 2011 the number has been drawn back to about 50,000. Now that we have been in the Middle East for so long that “President Obama has kept the United States enmeshed in occupations and interventions across the Muslim world isn’t evidence that our strategy is working. It’s a sign that he doesn’t know how to get us out. (Douthat)” We have been fighting for 10 years against the war on terror and we haven’t gotten very far, and who knows how much longer we will be fighting.

Question 3: How has debate on this issue made our country stronger? Click edit, post the power paragraph for question 3.
 * < "Ten Years on." //The Economist// 3 Sept. 2011: n. pag. Print. ||

Over the past 10 years the United States has been fighting the global war on terror, there has been much debate on whether this has strengthen and secured us or weakened and made us more vulnerable. It can be debated that it has done both, weakened and secured, because we are out fighting the terrorists instead of sitting so they can’t plan a major attack on the homeland United States like 9/11 instead of doing nothing but the more time we spend fighting the terrorist is more money we are spending and the more in debt we go. The Economist said that “America’s homeland might be safer than it was ten years ago, but its strategic posture has deteriorated in a swathe of the Middle-East and South Asia, and will worsen further in Iraq falls under the spell of the mullahs’ Iran, or Pakistan implodes”, this means that we are angering Iraq because our war on terror is stationed there and its angering the Iraqi government. Overall the war on terror has both strengthened and weakened the United States but we are determined to fight to the end.

2011, final edition ed.: n. pag. Print. || RUBRIC for Responses
 * < Douthat, Ross. "It's Still the 9/11 era." //The New York Times// [New York] 4 Sept.
 * A strong topic sentence that clearly addresses and answers the question
 * Evidence that clearly supports the topic sentence
 * Correct use of internal citations and a properly formatted MLA citation for your articles (put this citation at the end of paragraph one)
 * Strict adherence to the Power Paragraph format
 * Mechanics are clean and do not detract from meaning