{"id":921,"date":"2018-12-18T23:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=921"},"modified":"2018-12-18T23:01:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T23:01:56","slug":"excerpt-from-the-9-11-commission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/excerpt-from-the-9-11-commission-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from the 9\/11 Commission Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After September 11, 2001 American society and foreign policy changed. While it was known who was responsible for the attacks, people tried to discern the threat as a whole and the motive behind it. While there was an emphasis on the importance of not generalizing the threat, saying, \u201cThis vagueness blurs the strategy\u201d. It identifies the threat as, \u201cIslamist terrorism, especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideologies.\u201d However, the \u201cvagueness\u201d would ultimately come out with the ideology and reasons behind the attacks. The report says, \u201cBecause the Muslim world has fallen behind the West politically, economically, and militarily for the past three centuries, and because few tolerant or secular Muslims democracies provide alternate models for the future, Bin Laden\u2019s message finds receptive ears.\u201d In reality, it was America\u2019s foreign policy that angered groups like al Qaeda, not American values. \u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-922 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-5.59.37-PM-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-5.59.37-PM-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-5.59.37-PM.png 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After September 11, 2001 American society and foreign policy changed. While it was known who was responsible for the attacks, people tried to discern the threat as a whole and&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/excerpt-from-the-9-11-commission-report\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}