1.0 link 40019 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-lafsky/was-911-really-that-bad-d_b_40019.html The Los Angeles Times has stirred up controversy with an op-ed provacatively titled, "Was 9/11 really that bad? The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we're overreacting." The piece, written by Johns Hopkins history professor and New Republic contributing editor David Bell, is a scholarly analysis of the Pentagon and World Trade Center bombings as placed in a larger historical framework. Bell argues that, while the events of September 11th were traumatic for Americans,...

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