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There is a very real chance that the mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and other hellholes will lead to the deaths of far more Americans than the number who died in the 9/11 attacks. Every act of brutality we commit acts as a tool for recruiting among terrorist organizations. We've already lost far more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than the 9/11 death toll, and I guarantee you that most of those deaths were caused by people who, although they may not have liked Americans very much, weren't actually motivated to go out and kill them until we invaded their countries. These deaths happen by ones and twos, so they don't grab the same kind of attention as the Twin Towers -- but they're still just as dead.
