Johns Hopkins prof in LA Times: Was 9/11 really that bad?
David A. Bell thinks we overreacted to the largest attack ever on American soil. I, on the other hand, think that we haven’t reacted strongly enough — not so much militarily, although our response in that regard hasn’t been properly focused, but in other ways: in dealing with the foreign policy dependence that arises from our use of oil, and in dealing with Muslim immigration into the West, and in calling to account Muslim advocacy groups in the U.S., asking that they cooperate actively with anti-terror efforts and work actively against the jihad ideology in American mosques. “Was 9/11 really that bad? The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we’re overreacting,” by Johns Hopkins professor David A. Bell in the LA Times: IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been
