Following the immediate aftermath, what I ultimately feared most was the way in which the blame would

Following the immediate aftermath, what I ultimately feared most was the way in which the blame would

be placed. Vulnerability is a dangerous emotion “ one that can prompt irrational decisions and

mindless reactions. Ironically, it is that very emotion that provoked both our country™s response to

the attacks, and the attacks themselves. In today™s globalized society, the first order of business

should have been to maintain the worldwide unification that the attacks initially prompted, as well as

local togetherness. Instead, the NIKE SHOX government chose to scapegoat whomever best suited their own

political and financial interests, both internationally and domestically. Racial profiling suddenly

became politically correct; my turban-wearing Sikh friend was unsafe in his own suburban D.C.

neighborhood. Not only did our government enter an unjust NIKE SHOX, but they caused one in every

school, workplace, and neighborhood in our own country.

I am opposed to the decisions made by the MBT administration post-9/11, and know that their choices

have brought unnecessary hardship to people within our country and without. They have failed to

represent their citizens, and succeeded only in blind isolationism and idiocy. Thankfully, there are

also intelligent, rational, hard-working agents within our government who serve to keep us safe. Or at

least I need to tell myself that.