Improving Security

After the 9/11, American authorities are viewing how they can improve security to protect the country from this terrorist attacks. After the destroy of the World Trade Center, the United States spended a lot of money on improving the national security. They know that the major enemy are the Islamist groups of terrorism. Now, they set some goals to improve the security and some of them are to prevent the growth of terrorism and prepare people for future attacks. Americans know that another attack can occur at any moment, but for the next time, they want to be prepared in order to protect people.

"Total federal spending on defense (including expenditures on both Iraq and Afghanistan), homeland security, and international affairs rose more than 50 percent, from $354 billion to about $547 billion. The United States has not experienced such a rapid surge in national security spending since the Korean War."
In a lot of time, the U.S. didn´t spend that amount of money and all these can tell that this attack was massive.
"Islam is not the enemy. It is not synonymous with terror. Nor does Islam teach terror."
Islam is not bad and they don´t teach terror, but there are some extremist groups that attack places and those people are the enemies.

America took the Islamist attacks seriously and really wanted to improve the security of the country. They are clear on who the enemy is and invested big amounts of money because the are concerned about the protection of the citizens. They also know that more attacks may occur and they are doing all what they can in order to try to prevent them or prepare people from them. They know the whole situation and it will be easier to be prepared on the future.

Staying Safe

President Bush was flying to Nebraska because he needed a safe place and also a location where he can speak and give reports. In Nebraska, Bush had a conference with Rice and they concluded that they are involved in a war. Specifically, members of the government stayed in Offutt Air Force Base in which fifty people could stay. As planed, U.S. president stayed in Nebraska for some time and after that, he flew back to the White House in Washington D.C. passing over the Pentagon. Protections from Al Qaeda will be better and the war was against this extremist group from the Middle East.

"President Bush met with his principal advisers through a secure video teleconference. Rice said President Bush began the meeting with the words, "We´re at war," and that Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet said the agency was still assessing who was responsible, but the early signs all pointed to al Qaeda."
Everybody is concerned about the topic of the attacks and the war that they are having against the Al Qaeda group.
"Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was chosen because of its elaborate command and control facilities, and because it could accommodate overnight lodging for 50 persons."
This was a very good place for people to stay so they selected it in order to have good instruments and security.

The president thought a lot about his security and he had chosen the best place for him and his men to stay. They got out of the White House and the Pentagon because they were attacked and they were dangerous places. After having the conference, they considered that it was safe to go back to Washington D.C. This was a memorable day for the U.S., but more for the government and they will be more alert if someone attacks again.