“The U.S. spent $1.3 trillion in the ten years following the attacks chasing al-Qaida and fighting two wars. That was on top of baseline military spending in excess of $4 trillion.”
“After 9/11 the floodgates opened,” says Eric Hugel, a defense industry analyst at Stephens Inc.
In other news, people are bummed out by all the dying that happens during war.
