Hindsight is 20/20

Did we overreact to 9/11?

A very interesting article and a super legitimate concern. I think the thing that is still so shocking to Americans is how unexpected, off-guard, and symbolically spectacular it was. Today, another big terrorist attack that killed even more people would pale in comparison to the emotion 9/11 invoked.

9/11 awakened America to the threat of Islamic Fascism. No big deal, it's just that prior to 9/11 we didn't widely recognize the extreme level of hatred they possessed towards us. We're dealing with it and it's a testament to our strength that we can try and fail at different attempts - ie policing, military, economic, and diplomatic, until we figure out how to stomp it out before we allow them to grow and escalate into an existential threat.