Is the world changed?

[mmonk]

Since the terrorists struck on 9/11, people like to say the world changed. I propose only the US changed. There were terrorist acts before and there have been terrorist acts since. So why do we have to go with a global war against countries? Why do we have to shread the constitution? I just can't go to the mindset that we must use this strategy. It doesn't seem smart, effective, nor prudent.

[Not Me]

1. My friends in Europe don't want to come to visit

Mostly pissed about the fingerprinting, etc. but I think they are a little fearful. 9/11 AND bus*h's fear campaign has definitely changed this country.

[iangb]

2. Yes........and No

In fact the world did change as result of 9/11. There was a pretty much universal wave of sympathy and support for the US across nations and religions.
Then Bush/Rumsfeld et al set about destroying that good-will, and creating a wave of anti-Americanism that includes nearly half of this planet's population.........neat trick eh?

[Webster Green]

3. Been saying that since it happened

Fundamentalist religious fanatics murdered thousands of innocent people.

Nothing new about that.

The neighborhood changed.

[bigtree]

4. Bush's actions have awakened us to the power inherent in the presidency

and 9-11 revealed to many Americans and others around the world our great nation's vulnerabilities: Apathy, ignorance, avarice, indifference . . . but, I have some optimism that if we can manage to oust these violent pretenders from our highest offices we can set things right. We have to try.

"Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one’s mother’s womb."
Italo Calvino (1923–1985), Italian novelist