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I don't think 9/11 changed all that much. We're way safer now than during the 1980s.

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Am I missing something or do you contradict yourself here?

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People are always like, "The world is a totally different place. Every thing is so scary. Terrorists. Whatever."

We had a bunch of nuclear weapons aimed at us-- on hair-trigger alert. In contrast, a loose assocation of Islamic extremists isn't really that big a deal.