What if we get hit again with a 9/11-sized attack?
Well, then everyone would know for sure that more than a decade of war, more than a trillion dollars down the rat hole, and hundreds of thousands of dead (nearly a million, now?) did not prevent it.
Vastly, immeasurably disproportionate expense, destruction, and bloodshed way beyond sensible and effective retaliation for 9/11 were all loss and no gain, exactly as now appears so obvious and exactly as the opponents of GW's two stupid wars warned.
But the justly infamous military-industrial complex cleaned up.
Had we proceeded in measured fashion all these years with them attacking and us responding in due proportion the fighting would still be going on, just as it is now.
But the cost to us and innocent Muslims would have been far less, the damage to Muslim lands and anti-radical states far less, and the gains by the most violent Islamists, thriving as they do on destruction and chaos, would have been far less.
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