Opinion... With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. - George W. Bush The September 11th attacks of 2001 were hideous. They made decent people all over the world share a collective intake of breath. How could those bastards kill so many innocent people as well as throwing away their own lives? It was all so terrible and so shocking. There hadn't been anything like that before. America the Beautiful was traumatised from sea to shining sea. When somebody assaults you, breaks into your home, hurts a member of your family or steals your car it is natural to want revenge. An eye for an eye. It's written in the DNA of human beings. Consequently, George W. Bush, spurred on by the US military and powerful Republicans looked for an enemy who would pay the price of what happened that fateful September morning. Trouble was that the enemy did not hail from nor represent any particular country. ...