Comparative Questions

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Document Links

Document 31-1: National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War

Document 31-2: A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses

Document 31-3: A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked

Document 31-4: Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools' Responsibility for the Economic Crisis

Document 31-5: President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U.S. Relations with the Muslim World

  1. In what ways did the terrorist attacks of 9/11 influence the views of George W. Bush and the national security strategy of his administration?
  2. How did Barack Obama's views of the Muslim world differ, if at all, from those of George W. Bush? How would you account for the differences?
  3. Which twenty-first-century crisis seems to have had more of an impact on Americans' daily lives: the financial crisis discussed by Joseph Stiglitz or Islamist terrorism? What evidence from the documents and your own experiences leads you to that conclusion?
  4. How did the world order envisioned by Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and Tony Campolo compare to that envisioned by Presidents Bush and Obama? What role did religion have in these views? Did religion pay a role in the financial meltdown discussed by Stiglitz?