9/11 pushed the US into a war with Iraq and Afghanistan, created the climate in which things like the Patriot Act flourished and turned the US from a clear supp

9/11 pushed the US into a war with Iraq and Afghanistan, created the climate in which things like the Patriot Act flourished and turned the US from a clear supporter of human rights into a nation whose use or non use of torture is a question of semantics. [1] In addition my perception from outside of the US is, that since 9/11 US popular culture uses terrorists as villains in a similar manner as Nazis or Russian spies before that. (Atop of that, I have a hard time remembering a movie in which the torture of an SS member is depicted as a necessary evil.) So I am not arguing that the twelve years 9/11 did change the world in a similar magnitude as WWII did, I am arguing that the cultural significance of 9/11 is similar to the cultural significance of Pearl Harbour. Especially considering that the US would have been drawn into WWII anyhow, while at least the Afghanistan war is a direct consequence of 9/11. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Classification_in_the_U.S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Classification_i....