Thursday, September 8, 2011

Have we stopped cowering in fear yet?

The ten year anniversary of September 11th seems to be bringing out a whole bunch of articles which are pointing out the obvious absurdity of spending a trillion dollars to save what might be a couple thousand lives, but given how few terrorist attacks we have stopped from government action may well be no lives at all.

Does this mean we can stop cowering in fear over an unorganized bunch of thugs who seem to only be able to pull off an attack on American soil every decade or so?

Here are a few of these articles:

Businessweek, Slate. The Atlantic, LA Times, SF Gate.

1 comment:

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