We're Better Off Without 9/11

Submitted by Mark D. (United States), Sep 10, 2011 at 19:30

==Three weeks after 9/11, I wrote an article titled "Why This American Feels Safer" in which I noted that, unlike the 2/3s of my fellow countrymen who felt "less safe" than before the atrocities,===

The attack illustrated the extent to which we can be harmed. We would have been safer today than we would have been had the Trade Towers not attacked.

Mark D.

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