"9/11" and "A Few Weeks After" Response [Edited...marked the wrong question]

*Is the American government’s way of handling events like 9/11 good or bad?

Is Susan Sontag going too far by equating the U.S. Congress with the Soviet Union?

Is 9/11 similar or different to the events in Srebrenica and Rwanda?

To be honest, when all these world and political events happen, I don’t even know about the events unless someone tells me.  However, I know at least the basic information of the major events, such as 9/11.  Though I was only in 1st grade then, now I look back at documentaries and realize how much of an impact 9/11 had on America.  Why do I talk of my past?  Well, though I don’t remember with much clarity what exactly happened in my childhood, I know for sure my family and relatives (and friends and their families for that matter) did not show any signs of fear or distress; rather, everything was quite routine.  This shows how the government, like Sontag argues, “infantilize[s] the public” (1).  I am not sure if the people around me knew of 9/11 but they sure did not show it.  That may be a good thing about the government babying us: the entire population does not break out into mass chaos.  However, I do feel like the public needs to be informed of important matters and events like 9/11; the public needs to be prepared and more cautious in case something similar happens.  The public, if they know of the events, will be more aware of their surroundings and notify the authorities if they see anything suspicious and dangerous.  On the other hand, if event details are made known to the public, the population may go around being suspicious of those who are innocent and eventually things would build up into a blame game.  It seems like the best way to solve this is to carefully inform the public of everything happening so that the public will feel involved in the happenings of the nation yet will not cause mass chaos.  I honestly believe the government has done pretty well in the years I have been semi-active in the nation’s happenings (starting from freshman year in high school).  However, the government may have acted differently for 9/11, so I cannot say.