End: Short summary, possible future impacts and personal statement

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 461.

The consequences of September 11 have been far reaching. Many countries introduced new security laws to prevent further attacks and to restore the feeling of safety people had had before the attacks at least to some extent. To fight terrorism actively many countries, especially from Europe, joined the coalition against terror and supported the United States in the Afghanistan War. Afghanistan was freed from the Taliban and is willing to become a democracy. The economy was hit hard by the attacks. While some branches still suffer from the consequences of September 11 several came through the recession quickly.

The terrorists of 9/11 definitely achieved that even today, more than a year later, our world is still threatened and destabilized by a new war, this time possibly against Iraq. Iraq is said to own or produce ABC-weapons and Saddam Hussein might be quite willing to make these weapons of mass destruction available to terrorists.

Violent terrorist attacks intending to shock the world and to attract the people's attention, happened before September 11 and they will certainly happen again. Examples of terrible terrorist acts after 9/11 are the attacks on a synagogue in Djerba, on a discotheque in Bali and the hostage taking by Chechen rebels in a theatre in Moscow, all of them causing many deaths.

There will be no escape from the global reach of terrorism if the world leaders can't come to terms with locating and fighting its origins. It is not easy to find and eliminate the roots of terrorism by Islamic activists because they are so manifold. Some, however, are obvious. Probably the most important step to an improved global security is finding a way to establish long-lasting peace between Israel and Palestine, as well as the other Arabian and Islamic states. Terrorist attacks in every corner of the world have revealed that global security is increasingly difficult to achieve through military means. Ways of preventing such attacks could be developed by creating social and economic security, through worldwide cooperation and by maintaining and regarding human rights and the rights of discotheque.