As I was flipping through the latest Time Magazine in my house as I watched TV, I came across a passage that cried out to my attention.
“As time passed, the Great Satan was no longer everybody’s whipping boy. Americans looked back on 9/11 as an aberration” (Time, 43. 11 Sept. 2006).
The article, written by Nancy Gibbs, is in response to the approaching fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11th in 2001. It states that September 11th was no doubt an act of war, and does not say that it was an act of evil. It was just an interesting article, expressing a different perspective on this particular event. She strays away from the traditional thoughts of evil, and focuses more on the concept of war, and how everything fits into modern society.
Seeing this different perspective on something that so many other students in our class claimed was evil is interesting. We might just agree to disagree, or maybe we should redefine evil, making it fit into our society today. Or maybe we just need to analyze perspective, as we are doing in AH class, and see why some of us believe 9/11 to be solely an act of evil, while others, such as this author, instead see an act of war.
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