That event didn't shape humanity, whereas September 11 did. Here your schoolbook in 2110: "The world was recovering from the fall of the USSR. CIA had reduced o

That event didn't shape humanity, whereas September 11 did. Here your schoolbook in 2110: "The world was recovering from the fall of the USSR. CIA had reduced operations in the middle east. Apart from minor crisis (Balkans, or 1998 crack in Russia), tensions were appeasing. On September 11, five places in US were hit by simultaneous terrorist attacks, the most famous being NYC with over 3000 deaths. The blame was immediately put on Bin Laden, who was searched for 10 years until his capture in 2011, and globally on Arabic people. USA raised CIA budgets, sent its army to Irak, Afghanistan and Pakistan, created illegal prisons, used torture against what was later proven to be civilians, sprung unprecendented measures for security. In the middle east, the recovery from the Cold War was replaced by a constant storm of missile strikes. Military started using automated robots such as the Predator, spreading a worldwide solidarity among arabic people. In the USA, impacts were high on civilians. In airports, people were arrested for not being able to explain where they were going, military tanks started being used in USA police stations, military methods were used to bust poker parties, killing hundreds of Americans per year, and NSA was in charge of establishing a permanent control on all private communications. In 15 years the most powerful country of the world became able to squash any interior political movement with military methods. Worst of all, a poll showed that 40% of the population believed that September 11 was an attack organized by the CIA to renew the nationalist sentiment." > It'll be relegated to the history books possibly to be replaced with bigger issues that happen later. Maybe not, if it's the root explanation of said later events.