That's true -- although it highlights just how ridiculous the decision-making around those wars was. In World War 2 the United States was facing other world p

That's true -- although it highlights just how ridiculous the decision-making around those wars was. In World War 2 the United States was facing other world powers who were capable of converting their entire economies to war purposes; in 2001, the United States was facing a tiny pocket of wealthy and determined radicals who would occasionally try very hard to blow something up.