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This 7 page paper argues that this book written prior to 9/11 actually predicted such an event. The paper supports the notion that in fact the war on terrorism and the current paradigm was foreseeable. Much about the new world order is discussed. No additional sources cited.
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months passed and inklings of a problem would begin to surface as well as a video game that contained a way to make planes crash into the World Trade Center.
It seemed that perhaps it was an imaginable event, at least in game territory. There was also purportedly a book written with a similar scenario so novelists also had the
same consciousness that indeed, such a disaster is possible. Movies were canceled shortly after the horrific events if they contained the twin towers or had themes of terrorism. Indeed,
filmmakers realized too that terrorism was a significant possibility. Thus, what is all too often overlooked is the fact that the events of September 11, 2001 should not have come
as a surprise. In Clash of Civilizations, Huntington (1998) provides a great deal of insights into why September 11th happened and why it should not have been a surprise.
He says: "The weakening of the states and the appearance of "failed states," contribute to a fourth image of a world in anarchy. This paradigm stresses: the breakdown of
governmental authority... the proliferation of nu- clear and other weapons of mass destruction; the spread of terrorism; the prevalence of massacres and ethnic cleansing" (Huntington, 1998, p.35). To this author,
the world is changing and the fact that terrorism has risen is simply a part of this new model. Of course, the author expresses nothing new. Still, before 9/11, his
ideas might have been construed as being somewhat the antithesis of the thinking of the world. Yes, people in the Middle East lived with terrorism, but U.S. citizens thought that
the terrorism really did not affect them much. They looked at it as something that was "over there." However, since the World Trade Center was taken down by a group
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