If you were an Iraqi, yes, it was really that bad.

For the people killed and their relatives and friends? Yes, for sure.

Considering all the suffering going on in the world? No, not at all.

There was a huge overreaction to 9/11 in the US which caused much more suffering than the event itself.

It was definitely terrible for many other countries.

The media tells us who to care about and by how much. I find the whole thing very irrational and very isolating.

I’m quasi American and I have always hated the people who worked in those towers. The primary business of financialization is to rob the masses of their wealth / pensions. They are a well dressed and well behaved parasitical class.

Osama Bin Laden’s stated intention was to drag the US in to a quagmire and the US obliged.

Despite what MMT people may believe, the US will now have to get used to being a much poorer country. That adjustment will not be easy.