Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | This week, the National Priorities Project released a snapshot of U.S. "defense" spending since September 11, 2001. The eye-popping figures lend credence to the theory that al Qaeda's attacks were a form of economic warfare - that they hoped for a massive overreaction that would entangle us in costly foreign wars that would ultimately drain away our national wealth. |