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Originally Posted by Sliver
Disagree. 9/11 set in motion the financial ruin of the USA. That is how the terrorists won and what will be remembered in history.
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The financial ruin that you're presumably talking about was all self-inflicted, which is my point.
The economic damage done by the attacks themselves was recovered.
The longer lasting, collateral damage on the economy (through multiple unfunded wars) and civil liberties (torture, eavesdropping, sanctioning the death of US citizens without trial, etc...) was all self-inflicted. Bin-Laden had no idea that these would be the ugly fruits of his labour.