Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

I rarely start political threads, so this one will be an exception.
Nearly 7 years after 9/11, the US has started two big wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) and is planning even a third one (Iran).

The 9/11 attacks have totally changed the world we are living in (also for non-Americans, i.e. in air travel, banking, giving up certain civil liberties etc).

The war in Iraq alone has costed the US economy over $3 Trillion (> $3,000,000,000,000) as a Nobel_prize winning economist calculates.

Yet the man behind the 9/11 attacks is still riding a camel somehwere in the desert?
Are you kidding me?

Why is it totally not an issue anymore in the US election?
Why has the public forgotten about it?

I totally don't get it