what sort of price tag do you put on 3,000 americans? is that the equation that is being drawn here? what about another 3,000 americans, or perhaps even more?
WE, the next attack will cost far more lives. But, that might be what it takes to make the American people wake up.
Unfortunately, you are probably right. The price of poker just keeps rising.
People like the DUmpers get inured to the number, and rationalize it away, never realizing that next time , it may be 30,000, or 300,000. One successful WMD attack in a major city will not only result in horrific physical carnage, but will deal the economy a devastating blow that will make the Great Depression look like a bull market.
The fact that we have not been
successfully attacked since 911 doesn't mean that they've stopped trying.