John Fetterman, called America’s response to al-Qaeda’s attacks on September 11, 2001, a “really tragic and tremendous overreaction,” days before the tenth anniversary.

In a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article published September 8, 2011, Fetterman called the horrific terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 2,977 people “a giant sucker punch” and dubbed al-Qaeda “the new bogeyman.” He also took issue with how the United States responded to the attacks and categorized it as a “tremendous overreaction”:.

Today we're thinking of those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001

— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) September 11, 2022

“Today we’re thinking of those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001,” he wrote