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Getting back to the real world that the President is supposed to be living in, hijacking is a commonplace crime which rarely ends without severe loss of life and economic disruption and can never be corrected after the act
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Getting back to the real real world, prior to 9/11, the way I saw it, I'd rather have my gummint spend time trying to make decisions regarding the economy, environment, etc. that affect thousands every day rather than spend a ton of money just to stop a terrorist from killing 20, 40, or 60 people. Prior to 9/11, terrorism really was, quite rightly, seen as something that was less important than most other things by several magnitudes.
In fact, while it's a single tragedy of awesome proportions, even the 3000+ that died during 9/11 are minor blips on the "social health and welfare" radar when compared to the people who die from pollution, car wrecks, smoking, etc. What makes it so much more important now, is the terror itself has a widespread effect on the population, over and above the deaths of individuals.