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The only reason 9/11 caused these is because we (nationally) overreacted.

• DanBC 13y ago
  > we are still suffering the (stupid, self-imposed) effects
  • Amadou 13y ago
    > we are still suffering the (stupid, self-imposed) effects The real damage wasn't self-imposed. It was imposed on us by poor leaders. The solution lies within. The events of 9/11 were vivid, but in terms of GDP just a blip. It was the poor leadership that caused so much economic and human damage - spending hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives for basically no return at all. We'll never have 100% control over foreign actors, but our government is an entirely different case. It exists by our whim alone. If instead we had spent just 1/100th of that money on better government accountability we'd be miles ahead of where we are today.