Imagine they would've each killed 50 citizens on average. I think that's a very high estimate. I think 5/terrorist would be high, but lets pad the estimates. T

Imagine they would've each killed 50 citizens on average. I think that's a very high estimate. I think 5/terrorist would be high, but lets pad the estimates. That's 40.000 deaths since 9/11. Was it worth it? Was that worth harming your culture, making your country more hostile to vistors and citizens alike, while spending (very roughly) $660.000.000.000[0] on "counter-terrorism"? Couldn't that money have been used more effectively, for instance on cancer research or programs to reduce obesity? 40k deaths over 16 years is nothing. It's how many Americans kill themselves in a year, while orders of magnitude more Americans die of heart failure, diabetes and cancer. And that's a very high estimate of the additional deaths-by-terrorist that might have potentially been prevented, maybe. [0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/11/u-s-spends-over-16-billion-annually-on-counter-terrorism/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/11/u-s-spends-o...