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[deleted] t1_iyf18o2 wrote

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SeasonalCitrus t1_iyf8ejf wrote

I'm with you there. And recently thinking the same.

I'm bitter about the TSA and FBI failures which allowed the attacks to happen: bitter about the innocents killed in the towers and after in so called counter-attacks; bitter it took 20 years to pull out troops, which was a waste because the Taliban took over the minute we left.

So much violence and what good came out of it all?

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyf329m wrote

One part of New York isn't the entire world

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[deleted] t1_iyf42xs wrote

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyf4i6x wrote

The only thing still affecting us today are higher security and patriot act, both of which help the world. Under 3,000 people died on 9/11. With modern guns, bombs and drones, terrorists could do way more damage.

We lost 3,000 lives, and with the extra measures 9/11 caused, it might have saved millions.

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[deleted] t1_iyf62b9 wrote

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyf78v5 wrote

2,996 people died, not sure where you got 300,000

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[deleted] t1_iyfa28t wrote

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyfd0dn wrote

2,996, including the hijackers. 2,753 in the World Trade Center, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 elsewhere. Do your research, all sources say under 3,000

>You're an idiot.

Edit: Reread your message and saw you meant outside of that. You're saying over the course of 20 years, maximum 400,000 people died? That is an absolute win for us, seeing as that is 20,000 a year. Barely makes a dent in our normal death rate of NEARLY 70,000,000 A YEAR. 20k is nothing.

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[deleted] t1_iyfdz97 wrote

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyfe6j9 wrote

Reread your message and saw you meant outside of that. You're saying over the course of 20 years, maximum 400,000 people died? That is an absolute win for us, seeing as that is 20,000 a year. Barely makes a dent in our normal death rate of NEARLY 70,000,000 A YEAR. 20k is nothing.

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SeasonalCitrus t1_iyf8qis wrote

I suppose it takes something like a 9/11 to put measures in place that should have been there already. Of course hindsight...

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