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**SDorothy28** · 11-09-2010, 07:27 PM

How is that distinguishable from the national debt? It would seem to me that it is part of the national debt.

It's part of it, there's definitely overlap, but that's not really what I was getting at. My point is that the changes in our attitudes and institutions that we've made in response to 9/11 have been more damaging than the attacks themselves - the massive expansion in domestic surveillance and the over-the-top Guantanamo crap, for example.

If this were the case, why did the Islamic extremists attack us in the first place?

To provoke exactly the kind of response we've "graciously" provided. Terrorism isn't designed to overcome an enemy, but to trigger their undoing from within - via panic and fear.

11-09-2010, 07:27 PM	#19
SDorothy28 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 571 Senior Member	How is that distinguishable from the national debt? It would seem to me that it is part of the national debt. It's part of it, there's definitely overlap, but that's not really what I was getting at. My point is that the changes in our attitudes and institutions that we've made in response to 9/11 have been more damaging than the attacks themselves - the massive expansion in domestic surveillance and the over-the-top Guantanamo crap, for example. If this were the case, why did the Islamic extremists attack us in the first place? To provoke exactly the kind of response we've "graciously" provided. Terrorism isn't designed to overcome an enemy, but to trigger their undoing from within - via panic and fear.
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