Threat of Terrorism Report Project: Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetoric Terrorism

I After researching the of terrorism and it 's influence on 14th Congressional District of Pennsylvania , the concluding results are that the Congressman representing the County , as well as the pundits within it , are all ill informed of the conflicts at hand . In her article Al Qaeda , Terrorism , and Military Commissions , Ruth Wedgwood proves that though most American citizens consider terrorism to be a federal and national problem , it is very much a local one . Al Qaeda 's published doctrine maintains that there are no innocent civilians in Western

society (Wedgwood , pg2 . She later goes on to analyze the psychological foundation they use to form their tenet . She says .this tenet leads it to [committing] the gravest of international crime[s] (Wedgwood , pg2 . The findings in the research show that Doyle 's politics tend to be more based on the national position of the Democratic Party and less on the concerns of his pundits (candidate 's criteria provided by HYPERLINK "http /www .pamunicipalitiesinfo .com http /www .pamunicipalitiesinfo .com

The Carnegie Mellon is a media relations news group . In a press release they published on April 9 , 2002 , in Pittsburgh , they released the results of a study taken of 1 ,000 citizens . The study measured the citizen 's emotional state post 9 /11 . The results of the study are as follows

The Carnegie Mellon team drew four major conclusions from the study

Americans who experience anger are more optimistic about the future less likely to take precautionary actions , and are more likely to favor aggressive policy responses than those who experience fear

Individuals see themselves as less vulnerable than the "average American " while still perceiving strikingly high personal risk in the wake of September 11

Men experience more anger about terrorism than women , leading them to be more optimistic than women

Media portrayals of the terrorist attacks strongly influence emotional responses , producing anger in some instances and fear in others (Thomas , 2002

Despite the fact that this research was carried out in Pittsburgh , and Doyle is fully aware of this press release , public record doesn 't appear to give him too much credit for responding to this census . His people are genuinely concerned for their safety and as Wedgwood shows , their fear is within reason . In warfare , the principle of distinction requires that civilians never be singled out as targets . Yet Al Qaeda deliberately timed its hijackings to attack the World Trade Center in New York City during the morning rush hour (Wedgwood , pg2 . The filtering of this national information from the public could , in part be due to the Congressman 's knowledge of what is at stake . As stated in Wedgwood 's article , one could plausibly argue that the fabric of American liberalism and democracy would be irreparably coarsened if government proves unable to provide a reasonable guarantee of life and safety to it 's citizens (Wedgwood , pg3

In his address to the pundits of Allegheny County , on his stance on terrorism , Congressman Doyle clearly states views opposed...