money.
Why not just burn down the capitol and collect the insurance money then?
This just doesn't make sense that they would spend a bunch of money blowing up two buildings they don't own so they get no money, then give out millions in aid to emergency services and victims' families, new security equipment, and spend billions on funding two wars.
While I'm at it, I'd like to also challenge the belief that the wars were about oil. Because of this war, we've dumped millions into fuel for military vehicles that we are never going to see again, plus we crippled the oil industry of a Middle Eastern country. If the war was really about oil security, I think they made a big mistake in getting rid of Saddam. They should have propped him up instead and cut a deal on cheaper oil. Of course, that would have been wrong, but it would have been far more effective at securing oil supplies. No, the war is is because our government was dumb and read too much into bad intelligence and looked for imaginary nukes. Now we are stuck with the task of nation building, which I guess some government officials thought meant building a McDonald's in Baghdad, and we'd be done in like 2 years, but it turned out to be a lot harder.
Let's hope our future President remembers this lesson before they try any military action in Iran.
