The events that occurred on September 11, 2001, will always remain a national tragedy for the American nation. The terrorist attack that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people is an example of an unquestionable crime that has affected the American population in a tremendous way (Mash, Fullerton, Benevides, & Ursano, 2018). However, there is the assumption that the tragedy witnessed by the American nation could be the outcome of wrong attitudes and beliefs that the United States held, as well as the actions that the government took in the foreign policy realm. Nonetheless, given the fact that the attack was directed at innocent people instead of the ones that could allegedly be held accountable for the foreign policy choices, the justification of the 9/11 tragedy cannot be deemed as plausible.
Questioning the plausibility of justifying 9/11 implies that the actions of terrorists should not be explored from a moralist perspective but, instead, should be analyzed from a logical perspective. However, the specified approach is not self-sustaining in its nature since the notion of terrorism as a response toward political, social, or economic pressure is itself biased and irrational (Richardson, 2015). Separating the moral outcry that follows the case of a terrorist attack such as the one that occurred on September 11, 2001, from the intentions behind the actions of the people that performed the act of terror is virtually impossible (Mash et al., 2015). Therefore, deeming the event in question as morally justifiable from any perspective is not a possibility.
Applying the theory of social conflict, one will have to concede that the alleged American wrongdoing that may be regarded as warranting the attack in question involves the lack of tolerance to and awareness of the needs of Islamic states and their citizens. In retrospect, the choices that the American government made at the time were rather questionable. The political decisions in question reinforced the imbalance of powers within the Islamic community, thus leading to a rapid rise in misbalance and the mismanagement of cultural and socioeconomic needs of those that belonged to the lower tier of the Muslim community (Brighi, 2015). The theory of social conflict makes an implicit suggestion that the attack was inevitable at that point and that no amount of compromise and collaboration could have mended the disrupted relationships between the American and Muslim communities.
Even given the fact that the foreign policy of the United States and the general attitudes toward Islamic countries required improvements, the events that took place on September 11, 2001, cannot be validated. Combined with the crisis of the Islamic identity as it was represented within the Western society at the time, the attack could be seen as the result of mismanagement of the relationships between the western and eastern cultures. The proposed theory does not justify the deaths of nearly 3,000 people, yet it provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of why the attack happened, as well as how similar tragedies can be prevented in the future.
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Mash, H. B. H., Fullerton, C. S., Benevides, K. N., & Ursano, R. J. (2018). Identification with terrorist attack victims: Association with television viewing and prior life threat. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 12(3), 337-344. Web.
Richardson, K. M. (2015). Meaning reconstruction in the face of terror: An examination of recovery and posttraumatic growth among victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. Journal of Emergency Management, 13(3), 239-246. Web.