September 9, 2011

The 9/11 'Overreaction'? Nonsense

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

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Our current difficulties and gloom are almost entirely economic in origin, the bitter fruit of misguided fiscal, regulatory and monetary policies that had nothing to do with 9/11. America's current demoralization is not a result of the war on terror.

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TAGGED: United States, Iraq, al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, War on Terror, 9/11

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