ccodiane
New Member
100 billion in one fell swoop? You don't say.The terrorists did about 100 billion dollars worth of damage and killed about 3000 people. This alone is nowhere near enough to destroy our country. Virtually all the damage done to our nation after this point was self-inflicted.
Our choices weren't to either do nothing or go ape shit on the middle east. We could have simply increased our airport security and deposed the Taliban in Afghanistan. If we hadn't wasted all our resources on Iraq we may have even captured bin Laden. But the fact remains that we've used Islamic extremism as a scapegoat for a lot of our other problems that have nothing to do with terrorism or Al Qaeda.
What about Kuwait?
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Following 7 months of occupation a U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. After only a few days of fighting Saddam Hussein pulled his troops from the country on February 26, 1991. Since then February 26 has been celebrated as a second Independence Day or Liberation Day.