it. Every year we continue to lose upwards of 35,000 people on our roads, yet the US military has spent $2 trillion on our post–9/11 war on terror,27 mostly in Iraq, precipitated by the singular deaths of September 11. America was angry and did not want to live in a state of terror. This wasn’t a cost-benefit calculation about saving lives. It was a cost-benefit calculation about how we feel.
