# yes, the terrorists have won

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-the-terrorists-have-won/200855>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 10, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-the-terrorists-have-won/200855 "2003-09-10T22:34:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-the-terrorists-have-won/200855/21 "2003-09-11T15:35:25Z")

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agreed.

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-the-terrorists-have-won/200855/22 "2003-09-11T17:36:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Squink \*  
> \*\*The children too ? What about the children ? They don’t blow anything like $310 dollars a day. That’d be $113,150 per year, which is a bit larger than the average household’s discretionary income, much less the kids _allowance_. On the other hand, 87 billion is roughly a year’s wages ($1629.21) for every one of the 53.4 million residents of Iraq and Afghanistan combined. \*\*

PLEASE, WON’T _SOMEBODY_ THINK OF THE _CHILDREN_!!!

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