"So, lets imagine how [the September 11th 2001 attacks] could
have been worse for example. Suppose that on September 11, Al-Qaeda had bombed
the White House and killed the President, instituted a murderous, brutal regime
which killed maybe 50,000 to 100,000 people and tortured about 700,000, set up
a major international terrorist center in Washington, which was overthrowing
governments all over the world, and installing brutal vicious neo-Nazi
dictatorships, assassinating people. Suppose he called in a bunch of
economists, lets call them the 'Kandahar Boys' to run the American economy, who
within a couple of years had driven the economy into one of the worst collapses
of its history. Suppose this had happened. That would have been worse than
9/11, right? But it did happen. And it happened on 9/11. That happened on
September 11, 1973 in Chile. The only thing you have to change is this per
capita equivalence, which is the right way to look at it. Well, did that change
the world? Yeah, it did but not from our point of view, in fact, who even knows
about it? Incidentally, just to finish, because we [the U.S.] were responsible
for that one."
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