> Nobody has assumed that. People have argued that (a) there would have
> been a second Al Qaeda strike that would have killed even more
> people, and (b) the Taliban government of Afghanistan was worth
> overthrowing even at the cost of perhaps 1000 civilian lives.
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>
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