The 'No Second 9/11' Argument - Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : As if 9/11 was simply a failure of airport security, the United States government has increasingly broadened its power to treat innocent Americans as criminals in order to allegedly catch terrorists at the expense of the Fourth Amendment.
50% : After twenty years of the War on Terror, $6.4 trillion spent, some 801,000 deaths (including about 335,000 civilian deaths) from direct violence by 2019 (and many more because of factors related to the War on Terror not calculated in war deaths), at least 1.8 million veterans with service-connected disabilities (though the actual number is probably much higher), the costs of veteran care amounting to between $2.2-$2.5 trillion between 2001 and 2050, not to mention the significantly increased veteran trauma, suicide, divorce, child abuse (3x higher) and neglect, substance abuse, car accidents, homelessness, the displacement of at least 38 million people who became refugees, a subsequent migrant crisis for surrounding countries, the regional empowerment of criminals, warlords, child rapists, and other criminal elements at taxpayer expense and in the name of peace, safety, and freedom, increased numbers (~x5) identified as al-Qaeda (and other radical terrorist groups), general increased instability in the region of the Arabian Peninsula and worldwide, the militarization of American police through increased amount of military equipment transferred to law enforcement agencies, the restriction of American civil liberties at home, government spying on non-criminal American citizens, virtual abandonment of the Fourth Amendment via the PATRIOT Act, multi-generational debt and interest ($6.5 trillion in interest alone by 2050), the unseen opportunity costs of what could have been had these resources been left with the American people, some have the audacity to judge the War on Terror as a limited success simply because we have not had a second 9/11.
47% : And if people followed the "I have nothing to hide" line in allowing the government to circumvent the Fourth Amendment via the PATRIOT Act, then it should be pointed out that the PATRIOT Act has become the model for catching alleged "domestic terrorists" today, which includes people who honor the memory of those who died on 9/11, those who observe religious holidays, those who question the complete validity of the 2020 election of Joe Biden, those who voted for Trump, or those who resist COVID measures.

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