The decay of a superpower

The decline of a superpower
The attacks from 11 September marked the beginning of the descent of the US. But not the terror tore the country into the abyss, but a government, which threw itself into two wars and forgot over it the problems at the home front. At the end of the "Decade from hell" the US went bankrupt politically, financially and morally.

911 changed everything. When the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed and buried nearly 3000 humans under it, the US already were in an economic and political crisis. The mud battle around the impeachment proceedings against president Bill Clinton two years before had divided the nation into two camps and the disputed presidential elections 2000 deepened this splitting between democrats and conservative even more: George W. Bush was allowed to move into white house though he had fewer votes than Al Gore - owing it to more electoral votes and after a violently disputed judgement of the supreme Court . And also economically it did not go too well after the bust of the Dotcom bubble , although president Clinton had left still another nearly balanced national budget. But when Islamist assassins with airplanes attacked, these problems all moved into the background.