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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by financial crisis,

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the sad moment when a stock buys a convertible because it'll fix everything.

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All right, give this excerpt a read.

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Given the excerpt, many critics of the war on terrorism believed that... what?

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And here are your potential answers.

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All right. Well, following the horrible terrorist attacks on September 11th,

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many Americans were supportive of the war on terror,

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but not everyone was on board with how things were handled.

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A close read of the excerpt will lead us to our answer.

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Let's begin by getting rid of option A.

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Nowhere in the excerpt does it state that Americans were

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not supportive of the proposed actions.

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In fact, the President's announcement that he would use

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everything he could to protect the United States may have

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been comforting to many,

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because many Americans were living in a state of fear at that time.

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Option C is the next to go.

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In the excerpt, President Bush references

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"the global terror network."

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Uh, GTN on cable. See it? Yeah.

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The phrasing here leads us to believe that people

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outside of the U.S. were also concerned with terrorism,

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and although some aspects of the war on terror were

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looked upon unfavorably by other countries,

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the U.S. remained supported by its allies.

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So peace out, C.

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Okay, let's check out option D.

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Take a second to check out the date of the excerpt.

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Right. 2001.

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People were flying high in 2001 as the economic dowturn of

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2008 was a way's off.

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'01 was a rough-ish market, but not nearly as bad as '08.

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The cost of war seemed to be of little concern.

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And we mean like our safety is priceless, right?

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Well, this leaves us with option B.

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If we revisit the excerpt,

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we'll see that the President mentions that we'll use

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"every tool of intelligence" in the fight against terror.

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That phrase worried critics, who saw

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potential violation of civil rights in the efforts to weed out

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suspected terrorists and sympathizers

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throughout the country.

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