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AP U.S. History Exam 2.54. Given the excerpt, many critics of the war on terrorism believed that...what?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by financial crisis,
- 00:07
the sad moment when a stock buys a convertible because it'll fix everything.
- 00:12
All right, give this excerpt a read.
- 00:14
[ mumbles ]
Full Transcript
- 00:21
Given the excerpt, many critics of the war on terrorism believed that... what?
- 00:24
And here are your potential answers.
- 00:26
[ mumbles ]
- 00:30
All right. Well, following the horrible terrorist attacks on September 11th,
- 00:34
many Americans were supportive of the war on terror,
- 00:36
but not everyone was on board with how things were handled.
- 00:39
A close read of the excerpt will lead us to our answer.
- 00:42
Let's begin by getting rid of option A.
- 00:44
Nowhere in the excerpt does it state that Americans were
- 00:46
not supportive of the proposed actions.
- 00:49
In fact, the President's announcement that he would use
- 00:51
everything he could to protect the United States may have
- 00:54
been comforting to many,
- 00:55
because many Americans were living in a state of fear at that time.
- 00:58
Option C is the next to go.
- 01:00
In the excerpt, President Bush references
- 01:02
"the global terror network."
- 01:05
Uh, GTN on cable. See it? Yeah.
- 01:08
The phrasing here leads us to believe that people
- 01:10
outside of the U.S. were also concerned with terrorism,
- 01:13
and although some aspects of the war on terror were
- 01:16
looked upon unfavorably by other countries,
- 01:18
the U.S. remained supported by its allies.
- 01:21
So peace out, C.
- 01:22
Okay, let's check out option D.
- 01:24
Take a second to check out the date of the excerpt.
- 01:27
Right. 2001.
- 01:29
People were flying high in 2001 as the economic dowturn of
- 01:32
2008 was a way's off.
- 01:34
'01 was a rough-ish market, but not nearly as bad as '08.
- 01:38
The cost of war seemed to be of little concern.
- 01:40
And we mean like our safety is priceless, right?
- 01:43
Well, this leaves us with option B.
- 01:45
If we revisit the excerpt,
- 01:47
we'll see that the President mentions that we'll use
- 01:49
"every tool of intelligence" in the fight against terror.
- 01:53
That phrase worried critics, who saw
- 01:55
potential violation of civil rights in the efforts to weed out
- 01:58
suspected terrorists and sympathizers
- 02:01
throughout the country.
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