$87B is Cheap

$87B is Cheap

What $87 Billion Buys

Even assuming overlap in these numbers, that one day of terror cost America hundreds of billions of dollars. And most of this was a deadweight loss. It has been spent merely to replace what was destroyed or to finance security that simply allows Americans to go about their normal business. This is the cost that needs to be considered next to Mr. Bush's $87 billion preventive investment in the war on terror.