An abbreviation of the date September 11, 2001. On this date Islamic Extremist terrorists high-jacked four commercial aircraft and flew three of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, NY and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
This is the date everything changed. People are said to have either a pre-9/11 (Democratic) or a post-9/11 (Republican) mentality. A person with a pre-9/11 mentality believes we should continue to use diplomacy and respect in our foreign policy. Those with a post-9/11 mentality realize that, after the attacks, patriotic citizens are willing to give up personal rights to privacy - allowing the government blanket privilege to investigate, interrogate and prosecute an individual without the bother of Constitutional restrictions. This also allows us to scrap the Geneva Conventions which were a bunch of stupid rules anyway.
9/11 makes a excellent stop-gap when anyone questions the actions of a conservative administration.
Example:
"Mr. President, is it true that hundreds of thousands of women and children have died in Iraq even though there were no weapons of mass destruction?"
"9/11! 9/11! 9/11 changed everything! Do you have a pre-9/11 mentality? Next question..."
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