911 CHANGED EVERYTHING.
I believe that we are in a world war (World War IV) instigated by Islamic Fascist using asymmetrical forth generation terrorist tactics. I believe this war started by the Islamic Fascist began more than 20 years ago in Beirut. The bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon when Ronald Reagan was President. This war may last longer than the half century that the Cold War lasted and our survival as a nation is at stake.
As countries like Iran arm themselves with nuclear weapons the threat becomes ever more serious and more intimate. Attacks like the 911 attack paralyze with devastating effect on . the life style of other wise free Americans and a devastating impact on the economy. After 911 people were afraid to fly. People canceled their travel plans. The Airlines almost went bankrupt. Remember what happened to the stock market. That precipitous drop in the stock market cost Americans trillions of dollars in wealth, wealth on paper that disappeared. Think about the overhead on our economy. Hundreds of billions of dollars in overhead cost that are unproductive have been incurred since 911. All of the people that have been hired by the TSA, airport security, security at buildings. These are people that could be doing other things more productively. The overhead cost undermines our standard of living.
After 911 there was an unquestioned demand on the part of Americans for politicians to respond to the events of 911 and put procedures in place to prevent terrorist from carrying out another attack. This added layer of security has been fabulously expensive. These are some examples of how everything changed after 911.
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