9/11 Remembered

A number of Situationist posts have discussed the causes an consequences of the 9/11 attacks or have been related, sometimes only implicitly, to the war on terror.  Here is a sample:

• Attributing Blame — from the Baseball Diamond to the War on Terror
• Jeffrey Sachs on the Situation of Global Poverty
• Trampling People While Whistling Rights: Normative Visions, Judicial Realities in Times of Terror
• The Situation of Donations
• “The Situation of Prejudice: Us vs. Them? or Them Is Us?”
• “Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Tenet: ‘Guilty‘,”
• “Lessons Learned from the Abu Ghraib Horrors,” 
• “The Justice Department, Milgram, & Torture,”
• “The Bush Frame: Us vs. Them; Good vs. Evil; Intentions vs. Consequences,”
• “Why Torture? Because It Feels Good (at least to “Us”),”
  
• “Law, Chicken Sexing, Torture Memo, and Situation Sense,” 
• “Michael McCullough on the Situation of Revenge and Forgiveness,”
• “New Study Looks at the Roots of Empathy,” 
• “The ‘Turban Effect’,”
• “Jim Sidanius “Terror, Intergroup Violence, and the Law,” and
• “The Situation of Being ‘(un)American’.”
  

One series of posts was devoted to the situational sources of war.

• Part I and Part II of the series included portions of an article co-authored by Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon, titled “Why Hawks Win.”
• Part III reproduced an op-ed written by Situationist friend Dan Gilbert on July 24, 2006.
• Part IV and Part V in the series contained the two halves of an essay written by Situationist Contributor, Jon Hanson within the week following 9/11.
• Part VI contains an op-ed written by Situationist Contributor John Jost on October 1, 2001, “Legitimate Responses to Illegitimate Acts,” which gives special emphasis to the role of system justification.
• Part VII includes a video entitled “Resisting the Drums of War.” The film was created and narrated by psychologist Roy J. Eidelson, Executive Director of the Solomon Asch Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

To review a larger sample of posts on the causes and consequences of human conflict, click here. For a list of posts discussing how people attribute causation, responsibility, and blame, click here.