The cost to the US of the 9/11 attacks was $100 billion and 2,996 lives lost:
http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1340691/World-Trade-Center-anniversary-What-did-911-really-cost.html
The cost of the global war on terror is at least $5 trillion and an incalculable number of lives lost, perhaps in the millions:
http://nation.time.com/2011/06/29/the-5-trillion-war-on-terror/
And we are no safer now than we were then. This does not compute.
According to Osama bin Laden, he hated us because we invaded and occupied his holy places and treated the Palestinians like shit. We are still doing all of this, and now millions of people (perhaps a billion or more) hate us.
What are we getting for our investment? NOTHING. What are the Israelis getting? Just about everything they want. And they're still whining for more.
I say ... send the bill for the $5 trillion to Israel. None of this would have happened if not for them. If they won't pay, seize their assets like we do to everyone else.
What's fair is fair.
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