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By attacking the United States, Islamic extremist “terrorists” were attacking freedom and democracy, and that they were extremists, unusual in their irrationality and inhumanity.

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In response to what some have called the “greatest evil” of the twentieth century, the United States put forth what some have called its “greatest generation” to protect freedom and democracy around the world.

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Terrorists are not "irrational" - they have goals and critiques of US Foreign Policy

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Has the United States achieved freedom and democracy around the world? Within its own country?

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how do we define "freedom and democracy"- who is granted these freedoms? who decides what these freedoms are? who is represented in this democracy?

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Greatest in comparison to what?

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While World War II was fought to "protect freedom and democracy," U.S. society itself was deeply unequal.

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This narrative puts forth democracy as the only valid form of governance or affordance of freedom

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Assumes a homogeneity of a generation and establishes everyone as united together in a common understanding of what it means to be American

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What makes an act of violence usual vs. unusual?

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We surely didn't treat them like the greatest, trauma PTSD poor health care, not to mention black vets didn't receive any of the post war benefits that white vets did (home loans, schooling, respect)

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How can we trace the origins of America's perverse relationship with the Middle East?

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So what about the soviet and the french other allies

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So what about the soviet and the french other allies

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This idealized view of World War 2 ignores the experiences many Black Americans who endured intense racism and segregation during this era

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The United States' military actions during World War 2 were not only about "protecting freedom and democracy;" they were a way to display military superiority (atomic bombings) and plenty of freedoms and lives were violated and destroyed in the process

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Protection at what cost? Who was alienated/ othered? Historical metanarratives of the nation

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Framed as fighting for freedom and democracy abroad, even though he had a very flawed democracy with limited freedom at home (i.e. Jim Crow)

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What does America define as freedom or democracy? Has America really achieved these things?