Research Paper on:
Democracy Threatened on September 11, 2001

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PGdemthr.rtf THREAT TO DEMOCRACY , October, 2001 properly! On September 11, 2001, the United  States was the victim of the worst terrorist attack in the history of the world. Three planes hijacked by Islamic fanatics were flown directly into both World Trade Center Towers  in New York City and one was flown into the Pentagon in neighboring Virginia. A fourth plane was also hijacked but the terrorists intentions were thwarted by passengers who fought  with them causing the plane to crash in Pennsylvania. Thousands of people were killed and thousands more injured as a result of these attacks. This was not an attack against  only the United States; it was a concerted attack against democracy. While other democratic nations did not have the physical damage that was sustained in the United States, victims included  citizens of about 80 other nations who happened to be on the planes or in one of the structures demolished during the bombings (Nyheder International Broadcasts, 2001). The outcry from  the world was swift and sure. Many have written that this attack was the worst attack on American soil since the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7,  1941. It was not the only attack against American citizens and property since 1941 but it was the worst. The comparisons to Pearl Harbor have been reported by numerous journalists,  analysts and others. There are such significant differences that this analogy is not really one that is valid except in terms of discussing attacks on American property, persons and soil.  When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, it was an expanded component of the war that had been going on in Europe; a war the United States had yet not entered.