> It’s just because we’re Americans
This is a specific political ideology that I don't think defines the country. In theory, in 20 years the USA could have a completely different political landscape.
9/11 was when the “War on Terror” started.
> This is a specific political ideology that I don't think defines the country.
But it’s not a “specific political ideology.” My friends and I loved “24” in college and most of us had supported Al Gore. “Break the rules to get the bad guys” is just Americanism.
This was just slapping a name and an official policy on something that has been going on for way longer. In a way, 9/11 was the point where it could be put as is on the public place and be accepted politically ?
> Break the rules to get the bad guys
I'd offer you "agencies that have their own extra-legal rules and only need some higher up's approval" as a better description.
The CIA doing it's own drug trafficking to balance its sheets would be a real life example of this.
24 was developed before 9/11. The pilot was filmed in March 2001 and production started July. It was just a freak coincidence that it was released around the same time as 9/11.
Moreover, heroes going outside the rules is a longstanding trope in American film. Most American law enforcement movies in the 1970s-early 2000s portrayed “the system” as holding back the good guys with bureaucracy and rules. Dirty Harry was 1971. It’s just because we’re Americans, not Europeans.