Bruce Sterling has some interesting points and qoutes over at hisWired Blog: "al-Qaida spent $500 000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost – according to the lowest estimate – more than 500 billion dollars"
puts things in perspective? A rather scary perspective!
(Hmmmmm. the pop-up editod uses strong and em!!! Guess I should stick to using it rather than the main site)